Mozilla Thunderbird Help Needed

[Waitone]

About a year ago I heaved IE and Outlook Express for Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird.  My problem is with Thunderbird.  I recently downloaded 1.5 and experienced the same problem as with 1.0.

Let me say this about that problem:  Occasionally emails with photos and / or graphics (from the NRA as a real ferinstance) are passed through with a small red dot instead of the photo or graphics.  Not a consistent problem.  It will vary by site and certainly not consistent within a site.  NRA sends me stuff and one day I get the dot and the next email I get the graphics.  I consulted Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 Knowledge database and found this link http://kb.mozillazine.org/Images_in_messages_do_not_appear  which does nothing to fix my problem.

So whasup wid T-Bird?  Any friendly advice.

[tyme]

Do you see a banner at the top of the message that says, "To protect your privacy, [yadda yadda yadda]" along with a button to the right to force Thunderbird to show the images?

You can change those settings under Preferences->Privacy->General... but keep in mind that such images can be used as "web bugs" to determine when you view a message containing them.

[Waitone]

The majic button is sometimes present and some times not.  When it is present I mash it and the graphics appear.  I am blocking Java Script but not blocking remote images--same results.

[tyme]

I'd have to see the raw email text to figure out what was going on.

I think it's out of the realm of possibility that Thunderbird would randomly decide not to display images.

[Waitone]

My thinkin' also.  I suspect a switch somewhere is in the wrong position.

[Nathaniel Firethorn]

Are you on a Windoze OS?

Haven't seen this running under Fedora 4.

- NF

[Waitone]

ME