Pegasus 'fesses up! -- no Jag content

["Kirbert" <palmk@mailer.gadcomm.net>]

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From:  "Pegasus Mail Technical Support" <tech-support@pmail.gen.nz>
>
>  Occasionally, and it's not really all that often, I get a message that,
>  when I try to open it to read it, my computer locks up and I have to
>  reboot.  When this happens, that same message will ALWAYS lock up the
>  computer, I can do it over and over.

I suspect you've come across a line-wrap bug, which we are currently 
trying to find a workaround for.  Lines that start with a large number of
spaces before any non-space character will cause the line-wrap algorithm to go
into an infinite loop.  Disabling wrapping of long lines in the message reader
is a short-term solution to this problem.

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Y'know, I had noticed that the messages that caused the problem had something 
like "Thanks!" written way over to the right, with a whole bunch of spaces to 
get there.  I had been thinking of deleting sections of the messages and 
trying again, just to isolate the cause, but was too lazy -- I couldn't 
correct the problem if and when I found it anyway.

I hadn't noticed that turning the word wrap off avoids the problem.  I have 
been turning it on and off quite a bit -- it often screws up some messages, 
getting the lines all messed up, especially when the writer has tried to 
organize things into columns or a table.  So, I turn it off.  However, some 
messages come through as all one line, so I have to turn it back on.

 -- Kirbert      |     If anything is to be accomplished,
                 |     some rules must be broken.
                 |          - Palm's Postulate

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