Hi Bart: On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 14:29:12 +0100, Flip ter Biecht wrote:
> Hello all, > As more and more people around here seem convinced that happiness comes out > of a pill and peace comes out of a bomb, I'm not sure what to wish for the > new year on this slightly delayed first opportunity, but a stable and > independent web browser sure adds to the good side. > Last year I gave my 486 away to a friend who now uses arachne 1.69 mainly > for mailing purposes. Up to three times now, he had to consult me because > someone on some list sends messages with an absurd lot (hundreds) of > adressees in the to: field, which seems to hang arachne while generating > the inbox list and / or blocks mail download. Unfortunately the providers > webmail interface contains some javascript so I had to send him to the > public library in order to find and delete the message from the server. > Can anyone confirm this for 1.69 and was this solved in 1.70? <snip> I can confirm that the same problem exists for version 1.70. In using earlier versions I never received any messages having hundreds of recipients listed in the "To:" field. In using 1.70 I have received a couple of such messages. In both cases the sender was an internet newbie falling for a virus hoax warning which urged him to forward the message to everybody on his mailing list In my experience I have found that the best way to deal with the problem is to use an ascii text viewer to find the offending message among the raw CNM files. Once you have found the message you can use your text editor to delete all but a few of the hundreds of lines of addressees in the "To" field. After you have done that, Insight will render and display the message just fine, but of course without the listing of the hundreds of recipients. Neither of the two messages blocked my mail download. If a message is blocking a mail download you can delete from the queue by using the Telnet client offered as an Arachne plug-in. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
