- How do I tell Thunderbird to stop attaching images when sending?

[Mike Schmidt]

Sometimes, HTML emails have code pointing to images located on public
servers. Most email clients will attach images to the email rather than
continue the image to be pulled from the server.

If you wanted the client to stop doing this, and leave the urls as urls :

In Outlook, you would go to Tools > Options > Mail Format > Internet Format
and uncheck "When an HTML message contains pictures located on the Internet,
send a copy of the pictures instead of the reference to their location"

In Outlook Express, you'd go to Tools > Options > Send > Mail Sending Format
> HTML Settings and uncheck "Send pictures with messages"

But how do you do it in Thunderbird? Can anyone tell me?

Thanks.

[Tony Mechelynck]

I'm not sure I understand what you mean, but if you check "Edit -> Preferences
(or Tools -> Options) -> Privacy -> General -> [x] Block loading of remote
images in mail messages", then when an incoming message contains images they
will not be shown, but instead a pale-yellow banner will appear at the top of
the message, telling you that images have been blocked, with a button that you
can click to display images for this message only (after ascertaining that it
isn't a spam).

If you mean in outgoing messages, I'm not 100% sure (all the mails I send are
in plaintext) but I suppose you can somehow include an <a href=... >...</a>
tag instead of an <img src=... /> tag.

Best regards,
Tony.

[Mike Schmidt]

"Tony Mechelynck" <antoine.m...@belgacom.net> wrote in message
news:JJmdncP1Oo6K6M7Y...@mozilla.org...

>
> If you mean in outgoing messages, I'm not 100% sure (all the mails I send
> are in plaintext) but I suppose you can somehow include an <a href=...
> >...</a> tag instead of an <img src=... /> tag.

I want to include a <img src="http://www..."> but Thunderbird recodes it to
attach the image locally and send it out with the email.

It seems to be the only email client out there that won't allow you to put
in links to images located on other servers.

[Leonidas Jones]

Are you sure that's what's happening? Could you send me such and email?

Lee

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[Christopher Jahn]

"Mike Schmidt" <nos...@thanks.com> wrote in
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Not a feature.

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[Christopher Jahn]

"Mike Schmidt" <nos...@thanks.com> wrote in

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Works fine here - I do this every day. How exactly are you
inserting the image into the message? Go through the exact
steps.

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[Chris Ilias]

_Mike Schmidt_ spoke thusly on 09/11/2006 1:19 PM:

You need to add the attribute moz-do-not-send="true" to the image tag.
For instance, see:
<http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.test/msg/2411d16960117a79>
Source:
<http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.test/msg/2411d16960117a79?dmode=source>

For more info, see
<http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_complex_mails_with_inline_images>.
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