[http://sourceforge.net/p/ufoai/bugs/3065 Item 3065] imported from sourceforge.net tracker on 2013-01-28 19:58:38

Restarted with a New Campaign.
There is a Mail message in the Mailclient System with a label "Alien Died" the Date Column is showing (null) as a date value. Attempts to read the mail crashes the game with an error - Q_strncpyz: NULL src (src/client/cgame/campaign/cp_ufopedia.c, 480)
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====== tlh2000 (2011-10-25 06:31:13) ======

a savegame would be nice
====== tlh2000 (2011-10-25 06:31:35) ======

it's the alienbreathing mail
====== tlh2000 (2011-10-25 06:35:56) ======

i would say the whole eventmail system is not stored in a savegame - thus reloading a savegame with an eventmail should always fail (no date is set)
====== tlh2000 (2011-10-25 06:47:04) ======

collected alienbreathing - and got the mail
====== tlh2000 (2011-10-25 06:47:51) ======

i can not reproduce it, and my suspect is wrong, the date is saved as far as i can tell (at least the loading of the savegame works and it does not crash)
====== gren01 (2011-10-25 10:30:32) ======

Copy of Console Log
====== gren01 (2011-10-25 10:31:03) ======

Save-Game
====== gren01 (2011-10-25 10:33:02) ======

http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/tt248/gren_pics/UFOAI/UFOAI-Mail01.png
http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/tt248/gren_pics/UFOAI/UFOAI-Mail02.png
Links to images of error
====== tlh2000 (2011-10-25 16:10:01) ======

what about the savegame?
====== tlh2000 (2011-10-25 16:10:29) ======

ah sorry - missed it - thanks for attaching it
====== tlh2000 (2011-10-25 16:11:31) ======


====== tlh2000 (2011-10-25 16:11:40) ======


====== geever (2011-10-26 21:42:39) ======

Eventmails have their own datestring in eventMail_t so it's not enough to set the messages' date. It's not a nice code but I wont rewrite it for 2.4 - it's too much risk. The eventmail loading is fixed in a2dd0ef680762209efec09b373d5c55e9237f3f0.

-geever
====== gren01 (2011-10-28 18:39:55) ======

Tested - Thank you.