>Under options, local settings, there is a box you may check to enable
>the caching of local objects. The default setting is on. I disabled
>this bug by unchecking it and now my version 1.70 is a lot more stable
>than it ever was before. The recommendation is for this bug to be
>enabled, but allowing it to be enabled causes all kinds of problems.
>When enabled I would frequently get the "Arachne Load Error" page when
>selecting a link for a mail message in one of my folders. If the
>message opened I would read it and then I would want to proceed to the
>next message or go back to a previous message. Regardless of whether
>I would click on the back (<<) button or the forward (>>) button located
>to the left and right, respectively, of the INDEX button, I would
>frequently get the old "Arachne Load Error" message. The same thing would
>happen also if I clicked on the INDEX button. Has anyone else suffered
>with this problem? Try disabling the "Cache local objects" bug. It
>worked for me.
Now where in ARACHNE.CFG does one find the Cache Local Objects option? I looked
and couldn't find it. I finally tried
;CacheIndex .\CACHE.IDX
;CachePath CACHE\
;Cache2TEMP Yes
then I was able to view the message from Sam Heywood, but the attachment
displayed awkwardly as text, there was no .GIF extension.
By the way, "application/octet-stream" is general enough to cover all file
types, including .GIF.