On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:04:06 +0000, Ron Clarke wrote: > HI Bastian,
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 18:09:07 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: >> Hi List, >> often I receive 'newsletters' by e-mail... nothing unusual. >> But sometimes those newsletters in HTML contain images and displayed in >> Arachne there appear 'red boxes'. >> Red boxes because the images are NOT present. > This happens if you read the HTML while off-line ? Indeed, I close the connection after SMTP/POP down/upload. >> The HTML newsletter is an attachment and the images ought to be >> attachments too... but they are not there. > So they are called from the email-sender's server space. I investigated some more: IMG SRC="www.rb.nl" in this case... so the images must be on the page www.rb.nl but Arachne does not collect these images even if I would be on line... but perhaps if I would be on line and click "load images" Arachne would download them?? >> Since most users use M$ to handle their e-mail I suppose M$ Outlook >> users can view the images in the HTML message... >> Are the immages someway concealed into the HTML file? > No. But perhaps M$ loads the images automagicaly from a web page in the process of downloading the mail? That would mean that attachments are opened automagicaly by Outlook Express with all risks belonging to such automatic procedures ;-(( >> Or are the images not downloaded from the provider by Arachne. If the >> latter is true than my mailbox would be some day be filled with not >> downloaded images and that is not the case. >> ??? Any explanations? > 1) The HTML attachment calls the images from the email-sender's web > server. This allows the sender's server to confirm that the email > address is a live one, and that the receiver has opened the attachment. > If it was sent by a spammer, then your address has been validated as > "live" and you go onto a commercial list. > I get a lot of these. Sometimes I got one... but i never react to spam in anyway so I don't care if the images are red boxes or not. My delete key does not care either ;-) > 2) Alternatively, this is not a spammer, but the sender has linked > the email HTM attachment to files on his/her own hard disk, but has > forgotten to send the graphics as well (After all, it works on HIS > machine). > I get only a few of these. If you do not know what you are doing and a lot of people using Win crab do not know because all is automated... than you will 'forget' to send the pictures with the HTML attachment. ************* BTW: If you like a good display at the recievers end: first attach the images and the HTML file comes at the end of the transmission. ************* > 3) Or the newsletter is in digest form, and the ListServer removes all > graphical attachments before sending. This is not the case. Regards, Bastiaan > 4) Or the sending email software has been poorly set up. Automated ;-) > There may be more explanations, but I would guess that it is one of > the above. > Regards, > Ron > Ron Clarke > http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/index.html > http://tadpole.aus.as > -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
