[Users] [Bug 3084] gtk_cmctree_is_viewable(): claws-mail killed by SIGSEGV

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http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3084

--- Comment #6 from Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> ---
You say "a class of bugs". I don't know whether this particular crash is only a
side-effect.

But what several other crash reports have in common is that they are related to
losing/interrupting an IMAP connection due to networking troubles or using the
"go offline" button or trying to close a busy Claws Mail.

That's exactly why I had thought that bug 2769 would be relevant and
interesting, since it contains steps on how to reproduce it and results in
crashing Claws Mail in random places such as memory management.

Is it wrong to assume that a developer, who is familiar with the design of the
software, could proof-read the "go offline" feature and figure out why/where it
crashes Claws Mail by forcefully interrupting an active IMAP connection? Isn't
that very similar to the crashes users encounter when facing interruptions of
their networking connection during IMAP access? Is there a thread that
continues working with pointers to deallocated structures, for instance?

>From the perspective of a bug-triager, my hands are empty if you've given up.

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