The messenger component in todays build (5/12/99, 1:00pm) and yesterdays build crashes trying to create the mail database when using a mail profile other than the default profile. This is keeping me from fixing a couple of messenger i18n bugs, so i'd appreciate if someone could help me out with this.

cc Alec Flett (alecf) and Seth Spitzer (sspitzer) for comment Alec knows ins and outs of 5.0 mail profiles, and maybe Seth has insights about past experience in attempts to open files that are not there. I'm not in sync with the build, but I hate to hold you up when you're blocked. Note either Alec or Seth can steal this bug from me at will. I assume this bug is caused just be inability to open a db file due to a bad path of some sort when prefs are out of whack. This will probably assert in Mork, which is only fatal on Unix. If the crash is on another system, maybe there are unchecked nils higher up in the code above the MDB interface.

No comments? Was there an earlier build where it did not crash with a mail profile other than the default profile? That is, did this change, or did it never work? If it changed, then maybe it will work again tomorrow, since nothing was done to the database recently to affect this. If it never worked, then the bug would need to be reassigned to someone working on the profiles, since it has nothing to do with the db per se.

tague, can you get a stack trace by any chance? It would help us determine which component is causing the problem.

tague - how are you able to use a mail profile other than the default? There is no UI to do this yet? Are you modifying some pref/setting in the code somewhere? Pls respond so we can get your bug looked at. Thanks.

Tague, we need a stack crawl. (Maybe Tague is no longer interested.) I will close this bug as worksforme in a couple days if we don't have any more data. The original report seems to pin the entire meaning on what is meant by "default profile"; I don't know what that means.

resolving worksforme per last comments

Have not heard back from reporter. Marking this bug as verified since we are able to start Messenger on all three platforms (6/4 release builds) after creating a new profile.