[Users] Seg fault when shifting ~/.claws-mail/ to new machine

[Ricardo Mones]

On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 08:06:41PM +1200, Trevor Carey-Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just setup a new (2nd hand) laptop with claws-mail 3.15.0 which
> seems to be working fine when I start it afresh. However, I have copied
> my complete ~/.claws-mail/ directory from my previous laptop which is
> still working fine (claws-mail 3.13.1). When I start claws-mail on the
> new machine with the "old" config directory claws segfaults when
> loading it with the following errors (and some stack traces):
> 
> (claws-mail:25906): Claws-Mail-CRITICAL **: imap_item_get_path:
>  assertion 'folder_path != NULL'
> 
> failed folder.c:3991 Condition path != NULL failed
> 
> msgcache.c:586 Condition cache_file != NULL failed
> 
> (claws-mail:25906): Claws-Mail-CRITICAL **: imap_item_get_path:
> assertion 'folder_path != NULL' failed
> 
> Should I be allowed to simply copy the config dir from one machine to
> another (they're both running near-identical versions of slackware)?
> All the accounts that are set up are IMAP and the imapcache folder was
> also copied across (rsync). Any ideas what might be causing the crash?

This is http://claws-mail.org/bug/3855, already fixed in git.

best regards,
-- 
  Ricardo Mones 
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