[mdlug] Thunderbird won't process certain emails

[Peter Bart]

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 10:45 -0500, Ingles, Raymond wrote:
>  Got my parents on Ubuntu 6.06 (not the very latest, the older one that's supposed
> to get support for three years), and mostly things are working. Had to do some
> customization (*why* won't they just make dmix the default?) but that's mostly
> sorted out.
> 
>  However, they've gotten some of those viral (in the social sense) emails that
> people forward around - cute pictures, etc. They mostly show up fine, but a few
> just won't render. Teaching my parents to right-click, save the images, and view
> them is not going to be useful.
> 
>  I forwarded one of them to my gmail account and it showed the images inline, no
> problem. Has anyone run into this, or has anyone found a solution? Email and web
> are pretty much all my parents do on the computer, so getting it to actually
> *work* doing that is critical.
> 
>  Sincerely,
> 
>  Ray Ingles     

Hi Ray,
	I might be able to help, I used Thunderbird for a while before
switching to Evolution. Under 'edit' 'account settings' 'disk space'
there is a setting to limit the size of the email downloaded. Increase
this to fit. Under 'edit' 'preferences' 'privacy' 'general' you can
specify what images to load. Under 'edit' 'preferences' 'attachments'
'view & edit actions' you can specify how to display images
automatically. From what you describe it might be one of the first two
options? Good luck.
	On another note, I quit using Thunderbird because it would not show
attachments sent from my Palm. I've since switched to a Nokia handheld
and to Evolution email client. Since then I've set up one IBM Thinkpad
on Ubuntu 6.06 with Evolution as the email client for a person used to
XP and Outlook. She loves the ability to filter her mail and have it
show up in different folders. The other machine is running 6.10, no
email client configured as yet. I hope your parents like what you've
done, my girlfriend, her daughter and my son do so far.

Regards,

Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
http://petertheplumber.net