Re: [Evolution] Delay Loading Images

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 08:35 -0700, Richard Weinbrenner wrote:
> just recently switched over to Evolution.  When email is fetched off
> the server it appears to me that the embedded images are not
> downloaded off the server.  After the download completes when I open
> the email, there is a delay while Evolution goes to download the
> images for that email.  
>
> I already have the 'Always load images from the Internet' option
> selected.

> Am I understanding this correctly ?  If so, how can I get the entire
> email including images to download initially.

There's two different types of embedded images, those that are truly
embedded (i.e. form part of the mail message itself) and those that are
referenced by URL and so have to be fetched from a web site.  Evo
downloads the whole message, so truly embedded images will be
downloaded.  Images referenced by URL are downloaded when the message is
rendered by the HTML engine - which AFAIK is not directly part of Evo.
In order for Evo to get all the images it would have to render and
interpret all the HTML at download time (which could be a significant
task when you look at the HTML generated by some mailers) - and then do
something strange to the rendering engine such that it no longer tries
to fetch the image from the net at the address referenced by the URL,
but uses the downloaded version.

>   This could be important on my laptop when I have a narrow window to
> download my emails but need to read them later, like when passing
> through an airport.

You could always try opening the message such that the images are
downloaded and cached by the HTML engine - they should then be available
off-line (but I haven't tried it).

P.