At 20:51 7-1-02 -0500, Sam wrote: >Hi Bart: > >On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 14:29:12 +0100, Flip ter Biecht wrote: > >> Hello all, >> 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.
Thanks Sam, but I was there already > Unfortunately there's no telnet access with this provider. Selecting the right message in the mail directory is possible with a directory lister like Volkov Commander (also downloadable .apm), Norton which has the additional feature of a built in editor, or even dosshell, sorting the list by date and then picking the largest messages for a closer look. Also an aborted download can be retried with Minuet (latest version usually on http://www.xs4all.nl/~labrat/downloads), using arachnes ppp connection (write a nice .ook with a button on the dialpage). Nevertheless, all this is a bit over the newbies head so it cost me an hour on the phone and a few traintickets. Maybe there could be some limit on the field in future versions (if ever) Bart (Currently running for city counsil in Arnhem, NL. I'll see if I can squeeze Arachnes advantages somewhere in the campaign... See http://www.sp.nl/arnhem) >Sam Heywood >-- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ > > >
