Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:32:47 -0500 (EST) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu> To: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Peng HaiJie <phj@www.transfar.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape 4.5 mail problem (keep crashing) Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9901112231170.31573-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> In-Reply-To: <369ABC4C.3A48CF70@aei.ca>
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I fixed the problem by selecting the type of mail editor to use as "Text." The HTML editor always gave me problems. But if I choose to use the text mail editor by default, it seems to work fine. This is set in Edit|Preferences...|Mail & Newsgroups|Formatting. Joe Clarke On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Malartre wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > On Friday, 8 January 1999 at 16:52:58 +0000, Peng HaiJie wrote: > > > Malartre wrote: > > > > > >> Well, I upgraded to Netscape 4.5 on my FreeBSD 2.2.8 system. > > >> Netscape himself is really more robust. > > >> But not the mail application. It's nicer, but it keep crashing. > > >> (exited on signal 10 (core dumped) > > >> And can someone explain me why both program are in one program? When the > > >> mail crash, netscape crash too. Argh. > > >> And sometime, it simply crash when getting mail. > > >> Am I the only one? Do there is a know problem? > > > > > > Try give more memory to yourself ,I'm sure that it would not crash often. > > > > > > in login.conf: > > > > > > default:\ > > > :cputime=infinity:\ > > > :datasize-cur=40M:\ > > > ^^^^^^^^ > > > :stacksize-cur=8M:\ > > > :memorylocked-cur=10M:\ > > > :memoryuse-cur=30M:\ > > > :filesize=infinity:\ > > > :coredumpsize=infinity:\ > > > :maxproc-cur=256:\ > > > :openfiles-cur=256:\ > > > :priority=0:\ > > > :requirehome@:\ > > > :umask=022:\ > > > :tc=auth-defaults: > > > > I don't use (nor recommend) netscape mail, but I had a visitor who > > did, and he reported the same problems. I checked login.conf, and > > datasize-cur was set to 64 MB. So if the problem is memory, you'll > > need even more. > > > > Greg > > -- > > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > And how about > xuser:\ > :manpath=/usr/share/man /usr/X11R6/man /usr/local/man:\ > :cputime=4h:\ > :datasize=12M:\ > ? > I will change to 24M. > Anyway, is there a way to know "why it crashed"? I mean, netscape.core > is not created for nothing, neh? > -- > [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] > [French piss me off - Cartman, South Park] > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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