Thunderbird does not display images in email messages

[Tim]

Tim:
>> The sample you provided, on a later email, has some JPEGs encoded into
>> the message (as per the second description, above).  But you didn't say
>> if you were supplying a working or non-working sample.

Ed Greshko:
> It wouldn't make much sense for him to have supplied a working
> example, would it?  :-) :-)

Well, he did say some worked and some didn't.  I'd be inclined to
provide samples of both, for analysis.

> Anyway, if you were to try view the mail in T-Bird you'd find it to be
> as originally described. 

Don't have it installed, don't really like putting it on systems,
either.  I just had a quick scroll through the raw message (kind of
hard, considering the rather huge content).

> I had a bit more time to look at this in the evening and I can see
> what is being "expected" of T-Bird.  If you look at the MIME headers
> for the images you'd these headers as an example....
>  
> Content-Type: image/jpeg
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: inline
> Content-ID: <tAhk9iyMmm1CIfpU4g9p>
> 
> The "key" being the Content-ID. 
> 
> Then, in the text/html section of the message you'd find this sort of html snippet....
> 
>             <div class=3D"yiv3030508851ecxyiv7863957078MsoNormal" style=3D"=
> BACKGROUND:white;"><span style=3D"FONT-SIZE:16pt;FONT-FAMILY:Arial, sans-se=
> rif;COLOR:black;"><img id=3D"yiv3030508851ecxyiv7863957078_x0000_i1044" alt=
> =3D"[]" src=3D"cid:tAhk9iyMmm1CIfpU4g9p" width=3D"561" height=3D"405" data-=
> id=3D"17bfaf0f-58fa-c795-9880-bde833a43cb7"></span>
> 
> Notice the cid:tAhk9iyMmm1CIfpU4g9p?  Which is referring to image via
> the "Content-ID"?  I don't know what standard defines this, but it
> seems clear that the HTML engine of T-Bird can't handle this.

Yes, I remember that kind of thing, of old.  I remember that it would
flumux various emailers, back in my early days of using the internet.
Though I can't recall which specific mail clients.


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