[Pan-users] Crashing on subject/author search (0.110 plus huge-group patch)

[Duncan]

This was reported before but I thought it had been fixed.  I'm too lazy
ATM to go looking for bug numbers, but it's still crashing on me here, if
there are more than a few displayed headers.

Even in this group, gmane.com.gnome.apps.pan.user, with all messages
displayed back several months, trying a simple subject or author
(combined) search for "pan" crashes it every time.  I get pan typed, wait
about a second for the search to take effect, and VWALLA, no more pan!

It's interesting to note that if I filter out read messages so only a few
headers are displayed, the search returns correctly.  I'm not sure whether
it's finding a particular post to crash on, or whether it's simply the
volume of posts, but it's consistent.

That brings up another thing.  I KNOW this one's bugged as I either
bugged it myself or added a comment to someone else's (IDR which). PAN's
failure to save state, at least during group switch (as the old pan did),
means on a crash, pan can lose status on MANY HUNDREDS OF POSTS OVER
DOZENS OF GROUPS!  I know.  It happened to me yesterday when I tried to do
a search, and crashed.

Because old-pan at least saved when switching groups, I got in the habit
of switching to a different group and back every so often even when
working in the same group for long periods and thousands of posts, just so
pan wouldn't lose read-message tracking if it crashed.  Now, I'm finding
myself having to actually quit pan and restart.  While the startup time is
much better with post-0.90 pan so that's not the problem it would have been
with old-pan, IMO, having to quit the app to save state, when that state
can represent several hours of work and a good 10-30 minutes of
recovery if one has been really active, is not a good "feature" to have
remaining at 1.0-rc1 time. =8^(

Hmm...  looking at my bugzilla.gnome mail, this last one is:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349044
Preferences are not saved when edited?

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