[mdlug] Thunderbird won't process certain emails

[Raymond McLaughlin]

Peter Bart wrote:
> 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.

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

Additionally there is a check box in the view menu: "Display Attachments
Inline".