[Pkg-mutt-maintainers] Bug#838720: mutt: pager segfaults when window is resized

[Antonio Radici]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 09:56:23PM -0400, Peter Colberg wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 09:31:40PM -0400, Peter Colberg wrote:
> > Hopefully I will send you a minimal muttrc at some point; it is not
> > trivial since I cannot reproduce the segfault so far and have to wait
> > for the next one.
> 
> I had another segfault just now and have a slightly better idea.
> 
> I was viewing the very message I had sent you roughly a minute ago.
> After a few seconds I pressed a key to scroll the message, after which
> mutt segfaulted with the same message “Sorting mailbox...”.
> 
> What had presumably happened between opening the message in the pager,
> and trying to scroll a few seconds later, is mbsync synchronizing the
> mailbox to the IMAP server every two minutes. When mbsync copies a new
> sent message to the server, it also updates the local mail folder, which
> appears to have triggered the segfault in this instance.
> 

Thanks Peter,
I'm sorry that we are going back and forward with the "please retry the next
version" statement but I wasn't able to reproduce it. Now that I have your
muttrc hopefully I'll be able to do it.

Also, let us know which terminal you are using as well, as that might contribute
to the issue.