evolution chokes when a large txt file is in attachment

Thanks for your bug. There is a feature request upstream about that:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240759. What kind of box do you have?
How many lines does the file have? How slow it is to open it?

On a Athlon-XP 1.8GHz with 512MB RAM, and an email with two files, one of 1.1M
and another of 121K but with very long lines, it takes about 30 seconds to
oversee the email, and about 300MB of extra RAM with respect of another "short"
email.

Could you attach an example of a such mail? For an 1M text file, it takes a ~4
seconds here and there is no such ressource change according to top. It does
that when clicking on the attachment button, opening the mail itself is an
immediate action and works fine.

Created an attachment (id=3720)
one of two

one of the example files

Created an attachment (id=3721)
two of two

two of two example file - I gzipped it but this one should be unzipped before
used as a test.

use both files as txt in the same email as test

Evolution 2.22.3 will give up rendering after trying for some time and display a warning: "Evolution cannot render this email as it is too large to handle. You can view it unformatted or with an external text editor."

You can create a simple test file with
   perl -e 'print "\n"x1000000' > /tmp/evil.txt

The upstream bug is about evolution honoring "Content-Disposition: inline" for attachments.

There are several issues here:
* there is no option to ignore content-disposition:inline to prevent harmful attachments from displaying automatically (#229013)
* rendering texts uses too much memory and cpu (1mb newlines => 50% ram)
* after displaying the warning evolution continues to consume memory and does not free it until program exits

Tried /tmp/evil.txt with version 2.24.2-0ubuntu1, it will not open the attachment by default, which is good, but if one tries to visualise the file, it will choke for a while due to the RAM requirements. Once digested, evolution won't crash but will be slow due to the swapping.

In latest Karmic, attaching a big text file (xml in my case) in a _new_ mail will produce the same symptoms.

1. create a new mail
2. attach a big xml file (1.7Mb in my case)

evolution eats all memory and chokes.

I had to tarbz the file to be able to send it with evolution !

bug from 2005 - version not longer supported
change status to invalid