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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Waitone on April 07, 2006, 02:51:37 PM
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My thinkin' also. I suspect a switch somewhere is in the wrong position.
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Are you on a Windoze OS?
Haven't seen this running under Fedora 4.
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