Hi Sam, Hi List!
Maybe the reason for infinite "Veryfying Images" is the "cid:"
protocol in the image URL?
>From ARACHNE\MIME.TXT (from v1.70r3, although the mentioned version
is 1.41 beta):
> However, Microsoft Outlook uses more complicated way to link multiple
> objects in eMail message, called "Content-ID". Arachne is currently able
> to generate Content-ID, which looks like "arachne-namespace/filename",
> so it is easy to create links to such objects. In this version (1.41 beta),
> Arachne doesn't support "cid:" pseudo-protocol, which is required to access
> these objects (eg. cid:arachne-namespace/mybackground.gif).
>
> "cid:" protocol will be implemented later.
Greetings,
Michal
On Sat, 07 Jul 2001 22:58:09 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
[...]
> ------ begin crap specimen ---------
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="IncrediMail 1.0">
> </head>
> <BODY style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0px 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 16p
> x 10px 10px 5px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" text=#0052a4 vLink=#004080 aLink
> =#004080 link=#004080 bgColor=#ede99e background=cid:backgrnd.jpg
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[...]
> ------ end crap specimen -------
[...]
> In addition to the HTML message, I receive also another attachment
> being a JPG image of a solid yellow color. It appears that this
> image is somehow used to generate the background color for the HTML
> message.
> When clicking on the attachment while online Arachne will "hang" while
> she gets stuck in a loop saying "Verifying Images". I cannot recover
> from this error by any method other than by rebooting my machine.
> The HTML message appears not to reference any images except possibly
> the one referring to the solid yellow JPG.
> When clicking on the attachment while offline the HTML attachment is
> displayed, presumably normally.
[...]
> Sam Heywood
