On 25/03/2025 15:11, Patrick Elliott wrote:
> I have been using, or trying to use, thunderbird, and more recently 
> betterbird to read the posts from this server for a while. Recently I 
> have run into cases of it just crashing out on me within seconds of 
> clicking on a post. I finally figured out what "one" of them at least 
> had that was different - it contained not a sensible "zip" file, or the 
> like, but an actual EXE. Not sure why this is the case, other than that 
> maybe the "preview" functionality for showing things in-message, is 
> somehow trying to "show", i.e., run these things, and the client is 
> going, "Nope!", and crashing. But.. I have to wonder, having noted this 
> case, if somehow this is what is taking place.
> 
> In any case, I would recommend, just for sanity sake, if these where 
> zipped anyway. And, maybe, if its just me, or if others might be having 
> the same issue, this would also resolve crashes.
> 
> Its annoying when a crash does happen, because the client "forgets" 
> everything you did that session for me. As in, it reverts back, not to 
> the point just before the message you clicked that caused it, but to 
> before you even started reading any from the server at all. This makes 
> pinning down both a) what is causing it, and b) why, and even c) which 
> message. I just got real lucky this time, since the one that caused to 
> thing to blow up happened to be both clearly labelled as a new utility, 
> and I got a brief flash of the message, just before things went boom, so 
> knew what to look for. :(
> 




Strange. I also use Thunderbird and I've never had this kind of crash. 
This is the macOS 128.7.1esr (64-bit) version.

Clearly, posting “.exe” directly is dangerous and should not be done. 
But from that to crashing the software...

Do you have a reference to a message containing an exe so that I can 
redo a test and see what happens?







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kurtz le pirate
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