Arch Linux

Any chance this could be assigned a higher severity than medium? Not being able to reply to or send email makes this a pretty serious fault IMHO.

The claws-mail package, a derivative of Sylpheed, doesn't seem to have this issue, so using it is a work around. I backed up .sylpheed-2.0/ and Mail directories before running it, just in case. It recognised a previous Sylpheed config and converted it, so I still had my multiple accounts. It didn't seem to convert my filters though.

There's a filter converter available at the following page, although it needs the perl XML::SimpleObject module. Although only a quick look, I haven't found an Archlinux package for that in any of the repositories.

Forgot this!

http://www.claws-mail.org/tools.php

I can reproduce this bug on x86_64. Pretty serious :(.

I actually don't like claws mail so would like to seee this fixed fairly promptly.
I am on x86_64 and it segfaults for me too.

Downgrading to 1.4.8 solves the problem.



I am unable to find 1.4.8 of enchant.
I can see 1.4.2 then 1.5 ??

I have just used ABS to build 1.4.2 of enchant.
this worked a treat.

I have just used ABS to build 1.4.2 of enchant.
this worked a treat.

Has there been any progress on this?
Can we downgrade the package in the repo until this is fixed?

I meant enchant of course, but nevermind. If enchant works with other applications then it seems that it's a Sylpheed bug, in which case it would be silly to hold back enchant.

Sylpheed is the only package reported having problems with this version of enchant.

If you want to run Sylpheed with enchant 1.5.0, you need to set the following global variable : G_DEBUG=resident-module
I don't really understand what it does, but it works (at least on Mandriva).

@oliwer: Tried testing your workaround, but it didn't work for me. I might Google a little and then have a look at the code to see if there's a straightforward workaround patch.

It works with this PKGBUILD file:

# $Id: PKGBUILD 52375 2009-09-19 01:49:39Z allan $
# Maintainer: Alexander Fehr <pizzapunk gmail com>
# Contributor: dorphell <dorphell@archlinux.org>

pkgname=sylpheed
pkgver=2.7.1
pkgrel=2
pkgdesc="Lightweight and user-friendly e-mail client"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/"
license=('GPL')
depends=('gpgme' 'gtkspell')
makedepends=('compface')
source=(http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/sylpheed/v2.7/sylpheed-$pkgver.tar.bz2)
md5sums=('1f470525c1fbe53253813a0978c18228')

build() {
cd "$srcdir/sylpheed-$pkgver"

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-ldap --disable-gtkspell || return 1
make || return 1
make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install || return 1
}

The spell checker is disabled, but at least can compose messages. Forum thread: With this solution t

@David: it works here using your PKGBUILD (x86_64). Just opened the compose window, not sent any message yet, though.

It works, but you have no spell-checking...

Until this is rectified somewhere upstream, isn't it better to have composing without spell check than it is to have crashing?

Downgrading enchant to 1.4.2 (via ABS) = full working sylpheed.
Are there any side affects to downgrading enchant ? ( I haven't noticed any )