[imp] Urgent: Embedded Images in HTML messages

[Otto Stolz]

Hello David Gottschalk,

you have asked:
> It appears that anytime you attempt to load a email message in IMP
> that contains a embedded HTML image, it takes 3+ mins to load the
> email. It's interesting cause it never times out, but takes forever.
> I know it has to be something with IMP. Reason being if I do a
> manual IMAP session from the IMP server to the backend IMAP server
> the same message will download immediately.
...
> These are not images that are linked.
> They are images that are insert directly into the email body.
> Not images that are attached either.

I cannot understand this claim, at all, because an e-mail
message body can only contain one type of data: either plain
text (which is normally the case), or HTML text, or perhaps
even an image (which I have never seen), but not both.
So, if you have an HTML text message, any images to be displayed
with it must be either attached to the message or referred to
via their respective URL.

I guess that your problem occurs only with a particular,
possibly malformed, message. Hence, you will have to
provide a complete example (with all header lines,
cf. <http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/19.html>)
of a message that causes that infinite loop.

Meanwhile, I'll sent to you, privately, two examples from
<http://www.systems.uni-konstanz.de/Otto/Vortrag/E-Mail/Kopfzeilen.html#M-Multi>
(Subject: Unbeschreiblich wichtiger Termin), so you can test
whether standard-conforming messages are displayed alright,
with your Imp implementation.

Good luck,
   Otto Stolz