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Description of problem: This occured immediately after disconnecting from an IMAP server with which reALPINE had lost contact. I received several messages that the server couldn't be reached and would I like to drop the connection. I finally responded 'y', it disconnected, and then crashed before I could try to reopen the folder. Version-Release number of selected component: alpine-2.10-4.fc19 Additional info: reporter: libreport-2.1.9 backtrace_rating: 4 crash_function: fs_give executable: /usr/bin/alpine kernel: 3.11.4-201.fc19.x86_64 runlevel: N 5 type: CCpp Truncated backtrace: Thread no. 1 (2 frames) #5 fs_give at fs_unix.c:68 #6 index_lister at mailindx.c:789
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Unfortunately as far as I know alpine will crash if the IMAP connection is lost so I'm closing as WONTFIX. If you'd like to work on this as a feature for alpine, you could probably use netem packet loss simulation even with a local IMAP server: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/netem If you get it working, the patches would be best submitted upstream to comp.mail.pine
Hi Josh, Hmm, I don't know why you say that. That's quite untrue; Alpine will *not* crash if IMAP connection is lost. Alpine just notifies you that it has lost contact with the IMAP server and gives you a chance to disconnect and close the folder every 30 seconds. Otherwise, it just keeps retrying whatever it was doing. I mentioned that in my bug report. This situation is not unexpected. In any case, I've experienced countless IMAP server failures while using Alpine and never noticed any correlation between them and crashes. Maybe a particular IMAP server, but not merely loosing connections.