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List:       exmh-users
Subject:    Re: Problem with HTML emails
From:       Brent Welch <welch () panasas ! com>
Date:       2003-02-21 7:52:09
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Can you "redistribute" a denver post email to me so I get
the full user experience, and a test case?  Thanks.

>>>"James C. McMaster (Jim)" said:
 > You didn't say exactly where to place it, so I guessed, and make it look lik
     e:
 > 
 > proc Html_Stop {win} {
 >     upvar #0 HM$win var
 >     if [info exists var] {
 >         HMset_state $win -stop 1
 >     }
 >     Http_stop                   ;# Stop HTTP transfers
 >     Head_ResetColors $win       ;# reset window
 >     Head_Reset $win             ;# clear memory
 >     $win configure -tabs {}
 >     $win config -wrap [option get $win wrap Text]
 > }
 > 
 > This not only did not solve the problem, it made a different problem worse. 
      
 > I have emailed you about this before, but when I get emails from The Denver 
 > Post, I always get several error boxes that say:
 > 
 > can't read "sock": no such variable
 >     while executing
 > "set data(socket) $sock"
 >     (procedure "Http_poke" line 55)
 >     invoked from within
 > "Http_poke"
 >     ("after" script)
 > 
 > Normally, I get five of these, only on the first Denver Post email I open 
 > after restarting exmh.  Annoying, but I can live with that.  After adding 
 > "Http_stop" to the proc, I get them on every email from that source.
 > 
 > Thanks for trying.  Do you have any other suggestions?
 > -- 
 > Jim McMaster
 > mailto:mcmasjc@tatanka.stortek.com
 > 
 > 
 > In message <200302190437.h1J4b0c07130@medlicott.panasas.com>, Brent Welch 
 > said:
 > > Try sticking "Http_stop" (lower-case s) into the Html_Stop procedure
 > > in html.tcl
 > > 
 > > >>>"James C. McMaster (Jim)" said:
 > >  > Hi, all...I am having a problem with HTML-format emails with exmh 2.5, 
 > > tcl/t
 > >      k 
 > >  > 8.3, Sparc Solaris 8.
 > >  > 
 > >  > I realize tcl/tk support in general is pretty sucky.  HTML is not 
 > > formatted
 > >  > well at all, but I don't expect exmh to fix that.  My problem is with 
 > > the
 > >  > processing of secondary downloads when I delete an HTML-format email in
      
 > > the
 > >  > process of formatting, where subsequent emails are also in HTML.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Once exmh starts to read HTML, it seems to open sockets to read imbedde
     d 
 > >  > files, like fonts and pictures.  Once these are open, they continue to 
 > > read
 > >  > to the end, even if I delete the first email.  The second email formats
     , 
 > > but
 > >       
 > >  > if I try to scroll forward, exmh randomly inserts stuff in the middle o
     f 
 > > the
 > >       
 > >  > mail and forces the display back to the top.  If I let all the download
     s 
 > >  > finish, the email displays normally without extra content visible.
 > >  > 
 > >  > If I delete several HTML emails in a row, the last one seems to require
      
 > > all
 > >  > the files from all the deleted emails to finish.  If I am really 
 > > unlucky, it
 > >       
 > >  > can put exmh in a hard loop from which the only recovery is a kill.
 > >  > 
 > >  > This whole mess is interrupted if I encounter a plain-text email.  The 
 > >  > downloads stop, and the next HTML email displays normally, without the 
 > > extra
 > >       
 > >  > download messages.
 > >  > 
 >  > It seems to me exmh should close the extra sockets when it deletes an 
 > > email.
 > >        
 > >  > Is this possible?  If not, I can live with the annoyance, but it finall
     y 
 > >  > bothered me enough to ask.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Thank you.
 > >  > -- 
 > >  > Jim McMaster
 > >  > mailto:mcmasjc@tatanka.stortek.com
 > >  > 
 > >  > 
 > >  > 
 > >  > 
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 > > --
 > > Brent Welch
 > > Software Architect, Panasas Inc
 > > Delivering the World's Most Scalable and Agile Storage Network
 > > www.panasas.com
 > > welch@panasas.com
 > > 
 > > 
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--
Brent Welch
Software Architect, Panasas Inc
Delivering the World's Most Scalable and Agile Storage Network
www.panasas.com
welch@panasas.com



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