[Evolution] Messages with large text attachments bog Evolution down

[Tim Wescott]

On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 02:54 +0000, Ian Mortimer wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 17:16 -0700, Tim Wescott wrote:
> 
> > Yesterday a customer sent me an email with a long (400kB) text file
> > attached.
> > 
> > Clicking on the mail seriously bogs Evolution down
> 
> You don't say which version of Evolution which might be important.
> 
> I get the same problem on CentOS 7 with Evolution 3.8.5. Notices sent
> from environment monitoring with 3 text attachments cause evolution to 
> freeze for ~ 4 minutes.
> 
> I tried running with debugging turned on and with strace but didn't
> get any more clues.  My current workaround is to filter those messages
> to a separate folder and process them in alpine.

3.10.4, because I'm using Ubuntu LTS.

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