Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch
On Wed 15 Feb 2017 at 10:49:06 (-0500), Tony Baldwin wrote:
> I get random ID crashes, pretty well daily, but no consistently
> identifiable cause. It really seems to be occurring very randomly,
> I'll just be reading messages when suddenly *pop* it dies like a
> soap bubble on a Christmas tree, no error msg, no prior indication
> of instability, etc.; Just sudden, random crashing. It generally
> comes right back up without issue and functions normally afterwards.
> Thankfully, it rarely does it while I'm composing a message, that
> would REALLY annoy me, and I would likely have already appeared here
> seeking a solution to the problem, but since, so far, it hasn't
> caused me any real loss, but rather just minor annoyance, I haven't
> mentioned it, until now.
If you compose in an editor like emacs, it auto-saves periodically.
With your email tmpdir set to /var/tmp, these will even survive reboots.
Cheers,
David.
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