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4/16/2015 7:57:14 PM EDT
Whenever I get an email from Primary Arms, my Outlook 2010 locks up.  If I try and click out of the email, I get a "Not Responding" error and the email screen looks like it has a hazy window over it.  After a while, the pictures download and Outlook starts responding again.  It happens every time and it doesn't matter if the email is old.  If you click on it, you are going to have to wait.  



It is really bothersome.  What is causing this and is there a way to fix it (Other than unsubscribing to Primary Arms emails).  



Thanks
4/16/2015 7:59:07 PM EDT
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could you forward one of them to me?
eta: I'd probably disable image loading anyway, since you almost never want to see them
4/16/2015 8:00:00 PM EDT
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JUST their emails?
That's kind of hard to believe.

4/16/2015 8:03:20 PM EDT
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JUST their emails?

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Just their emails.  Every other email that comes in is fine.  EVERY Primary Arms email cause my Outlook 2010 for freeze up for a while while their pictures load.



 
4/16/2015 8:07:23 PM EDT
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could you forward one of them to me? [email protected]



eta: I'd probably disable image loading anyway, since you almost never want to see them
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Sent



 
4/16/2015 8:08:06 PM EDT
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Not surprised.  Outlook is a horrific email client, and breaks a lot of standards (and not to mention, extremely unsecure to boot).  It doesn't take much to crash Outlook, or get Outlook to corrupt the PST files.

4/16/2015 8:20:33 PM EDT
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so to start, it's just over 400k with the embedded images.

Removing the images leaves 300k of html and css.

there are 88 inline images referenced. Removing the text version, you have 266k of html and css.

There are 739 fonts specified in the email.

This is like, a grenade of HTML. I haven't even got to fucking with the embedded css and how they're changing layout.
4/16/2015 8:26:36 PM EDT
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so to start, it's just over 400k with the embedded images.



Removing the images leaves 300k of html and css.



there are 88 inline images referenced. Removing the text version, you have 266k of html and css.



There are 739 fonts specified in the email.



This is like, a grenade of HTML. I haven't even got to fucking with the embedded css and how they're changing layout.
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So, there is a problem?  



 
4/16/2015 8:31:31 PM EDT
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I just ran a network capture and displaying this email, ignoring the cost to download it, causes you to download almost 3 megs of images.

Primary Arms needs a new mailing list manager.
4/16/2015 8:35:08 PM EDT
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There are 739 fonts specified in the email.

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4/16/2015 10:25:12 PM EDT
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I just ran a network capture and displaying this email, ignoring the cost to download it, causes you to download almost 3 megs of images.



Primary Arms needs a new mailing list manager.
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You are the man!  Thanks for the info



 
4/16/2015 10:26:47 PM EDT
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The client is locking up waiting for something in the email itself to respond.

You see, the email itself doesn't have the pictures and images and shit in it. It's just code that tells your client to go out on the web and download those images. Something there is fucking up.

Update your client. Try a different client.
4/16/2015 10:28:16 PM EDT
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so to start, it's just over 400k with the embedded images.

Removing the images leaves 300k of html and css.

there are 88 inline images referenced. Removing the text version, you have 266k of html and css.

There are 739 fonts specified in the email.

This is like, a grenade of HTML. I haven't even got to fucking with the embedded css and how they're changing layout.
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Holy shit. Yeah. I didn't get to Jones' response. The email they're sending sounds absolutely horribly written. The email is essentially a webpage, and the developer that wrote it sucks balls.
4/16/2015 10:28:53 PM EDT
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4/16/2015 10:31:35 PM EDT
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Holy shit. Yeah. I didn't get to Jones' response. The email they're sending sounds absolutely horribly written. The email is essentially a webpage, and the developer that wrote it sucks balls.
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so to start, it's just over 400k with the embedded images.

Removing the images leaves 300k of html and css.

there are 88 inline images referenced. Removing the text version, you have 266k of html and css.

There are 739 fonts specified in the email.

This is like, a grenade of HTML. I haven't even got to fucking with the embedded css and how they're changing layout.



Holy shit. Yeah. I didn't get to Jones' response. The email they're sending sounds absolutely horribly written. The email is essentially a webpage, and the developer that wrote it sucks balls.



Yep....just looked at the email from them I got today.
4/16/2015 10:33:21 PM EDT
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so to start, it's just over 400k with the embedded images.

Removing the images leaves 300k of html and css.

there are 88 inline images referenced. Removing the text version, you have 266k of html and css.

There are 739 fonts specified in the email.

This is like, a grenade of HTML. I haven't even got to fucking with the embedded css and how they're changing layout.
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Holy fuck
4/16/2015 10:34:30 PM EDT
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Holy shit. Yeah. I didn't get to Jones' response. The email they're sending sounds absolutely horribly written. The email is essentially a webpage, and the developer that wrote it sucks balls.
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Based on the metadata, they probably do the layout in Word and export it as a webpage.
4/16/2015 10:36:43 PM EDT
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Based on the metadata, they probably do the layout in Word and export it as a webpage.
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Holy shit. Yeah. I didn't get to Jones' response. The email they're sending sounds absolutely horribly written. The email is essentially a webpage, and the developer that wrote it sucks balls.

Based on the metadata, they probably do the layout in Word and export it as a webpage.

There's a 12-year old using a template from Geocities making their emails.
4/16/2015 10:38:43 PM EDT
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There's a 12-year old using a template from Geocities making their emails.
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Holy shit. Yeah. I didn't get to Jones' response. The email they're sending sounds absolutely horribly written. The email is essentially a webpage, and the developer that wrote it sucks balls.

Based on the metadata, they probably do the layout in Word and export it as a webpage.

There's a 12-year old using a template from Geocities making their emails.

that would be an improvement - I don't think Geocities supported css before it went under