Re: Communicator breaks when trying to follow mailto: links

[Randy Gobbel <gobbel@andrew.cmu.edu>]

Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> 
> Andreas Tille wrote:
> > I have installed:
> >
> > Package: communicator-base-45
> > Package: communicator-smotif-45
> >
> > Whenever I follow a mailto: link or I try to press a "Submit" button
> > of a form which starts a mailing process Communicator dies with
> > SIGBUS error.  This is from my .xsession-errors file:
> >
> > /usr/local/bin/netscape: line 64:   477 Bus-Zugriffsfehler      LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1 $netscape "$@"
> > /usr/local/bin/netscape: line 64:  2771 Bus-Zugriffsfehler      LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1 $netscape "$@"
> 
> This is a known bug with Communicator 4.5  The work around is to launch
> Message Center (ie. the Netscape MUA) before clicking on a mailto link.
> Hopefully, this will be fixed in the forthcoming 4.51

I found that disabling "Remember Password" in the mail server
preferences was enough to make this problem disappear.

-Randy