On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Brian May wrote: > Hello, > > I have found certain emails, when I try to view them with the emacs > notmuch client, will cause emacs to crash (segmentation fault). Every > time, 100% reproducible. > > A theory of have is maybe the emails are too big and the system can't cope, eg: > > brian@aquitard:~$ notmuch show thread:00000000000104db | wc --bytes > 943897 > brian@aquitard:~$ notmuch show thread:000000000000fbab | wc --bytes > 3262660 > brian@aquitard:~$ > > These are emailed TSM Operational Reports, entirely ASCII (plus some > non-ASCII rubbish), no attachments, with a large number of log > entries. > > An alternative theory is perhaps the non-ASCII rubbish (from weird > filenames some of our users have) is causing problems. > > Anybody else experienced similar results? This should be already fixed -- see http://debbugs.gnu.org/6214. I'm not sure whether the fix is available in an emacs release or only in the development branch. It seems that Debian includes the fixes in its packages (http://bugs.debian.org/586459). -Michal