Re: [Mutt] #3015: Segmentation Fault on redirection operator
#3015: Segmentation Fault on redirection operator
Comment (by Rocco Rutte):
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Hi,
* Mutt wrote:
>> Since the sendmail-calling code explicetely tests for 'from' being
>> exactly one address, I guess it's an invalid assumption that a
>> message always has a sender address?
> may be... mutt should exit grace fully giving some proper error message.
Exiting is just as bad if you ask me. IMHO it should have some fallback
and try that one and display the error in case the server returns one.
> segmentation fault looks terrible(well, at least to a end user!)
ACK.
>> I'd be interested as to when this happens (and why) since mutt should
>> IMHO always generate some sender for any outgoing message...
> I tried to determine that, but the code is too complicated to me.
I didn't mean finding the bug in the code (if there's any) but rather
any usage pattern this happens on.
Rocco
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