Thursday August 28, 2008 Getting Thunderbird to Automatically Load Images in Emails
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For the version of Thunderbird I'm running under OpenSolaris 2008.05, when you receive an email with images in it, I get a little "banner" at the top of the email where I have to click the "Load Images" button in order to see the images in that email. |
Well today it got to the point where it had annoyed me enough that I wanted to adjust this, so that images where automatically loaded. Seems simple right?
After spending about five minutes looking at all the Preferences options and Account Settings options and not finding it, I decided to google for it.
The solution is to bring up Edit->Preferences, click on the Advanced panel, go to the General tab and click on the "Config Editor..." button. Then look for the "mailnews.message_display.disable_remote_image" setting and double click on the "true" word to turn it to "false".
Why is this so hard? Why couldn't there be some way of doing it directly from the little banner with the "Load Images" button? Maybe a little "Change this..." link.
Anyway, hopefully this post will save somebody else a few minutes if they are struggling with the same problem.
( Aug 28 2008, 01:58:38 PM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink Comments [6]
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Rich, you picked a topic (email with embedded images) that has had my recent attention, albeit not with Thunderbird. Thanks for the tips.
Posted by Carolyn on August 28, 2008 at 03:43 PM PDT #
Did you file an RFE? ;-) ;-)
Posted by joanie on August 28, 2008 at 10:24 PM PDT #
No. I still have outstanding RFE's against Mozilla
from circa 2000-2001. From this experience, I'm
not convinced that it would be worth the effort.
I just made a note on how to fix it, blogged
about it to try to help others, then moved on.
Posted by Rich Burridge on August 29, 2008 at 07:44 AM PDT #
Thanks very much, was trying to describe to someone where this option was, only to find the ***zers had moved it to the config editor :( I know it's a bit of a security risk, but to some users it's not email without the images. Anyway yours was the first solution on google, tnx..
Posted by Jamin Davis on February 04, 2009 at 02:44 PM PST #
Thanks for the solution. It was driving me crazy trying to find the solution. You're right it could be much simpler to change. Almost all of my email comes with images.
Posted by Dennis on March 05, 2009 at 01:41 PM PST #
Errr, this is a security feature that you have just turned off!?
A technique used by Spammers and legitimate mail senders alike is to embed an image in the e-mail they send to you. The image will have a unique URL to you. If they see a hit on their webserver for that URL they no only know that you received the mail but also read it. The spammers then throw more stuff at you.
Just add the legitimate senders of this mail to your address book, Thunderbird won't prompt you for e-mail addresses in your address book.
Posted by Dogsbody on May 27, 2009 at 04:25 AM PDT #