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bug #18196: big summary popup crashes mail-notification -- never make popups larger than the screen

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Sat 04 Nov 2006 12:48:36 PM UTC
   
 
Severity:  3 - Normal Status:  None
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Open/Closed:  Closed

Sat 04 Nov 2006 01:24:55 PM UTC, comment #1: 

It's X's job to not crash when displaying a huge window. Anyway, that popup code is gone in what will become the next version (libnotify is now used).

For now you should simply refrain from monitoring mailboxes which contain that many unread mails (I see no point in doing so anyway). If you can no longer use MN because it crashes at startup while trying to display the huge popup, just remove the offending mailbox from ~/.gnome2/mail-notification/mailboxes.xml manually.

Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort>
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Sat 04 Nov 2006 12:48:36 PM UTC, original submission:  

Forwarded from
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213679

Original Reporter   Matthias Clasen

I was able to configure mail-notification to look at my evolution inbox. Unfortunately, it crashed immediately, when trying to display a summary popup of the ~500 unread messages in that folder. The crash was due to some X error, so I assume it is just trying
to create a humongous window to show all the messages.

As a rule of thumb, never make popups larger than the screen. And displaying a summary of 100s of messages is probably not very helpful in the first place. So maybe restricting the popup to a most screen height and at most the first, say, 10 messages might make this tool a lot more useful.

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