emacs UI hang: viewing a thread where msg has .tgz attachment with symlink to ..

[David Bremner]

Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy at MIT.EDU> writes:

> David Bremner <david at tethera.net> writes:
>
>> It would be a big help if you could share a message that causes the
>> problem.
>
> I've just managed to make an example that triggers the problem but that
> isn't 14MB (the size of the original msg).  I'm attaching the message
> below.  It contains, as an attachment, a 20KB .tgz file.

Thanks very much for the test case. I've reported an upstream bug in
emacs; we'll have to see what the emacs devs think about it.

Here is a link to the bug report:

     http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=18063