[P1] Pictures in mail program

[Gloria Vogel]

Ruffin, thanks a million.  This really gives me a place to start from.  
I am most obliged to you.

Gloria Vogel

On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 05:26 PM, Ruffin Bailey wrote:

>> Can anyone tell me why I sometimes receive messages with the
>> photographs or pictures just blank grey boxes, and then at the very 
>> end
>> of the email all of the pictures appear together?  Maybe this isn't an
>> iBook problem, rather to do with the mail program?  I just don't know.
>
> It is a "mail program problem", not an iBook problem, per se.  You 
> might try Eudora (free in Sponsored mode) or Thunderbird (Mozilla's 
> new beta browser) and see what you get.
>
> Mail apps can handle images in two ways -- inline using html mail or 
> as attachments.  Now even inline html points to images that are 
> actually attachments, and the format for pointing to those attachments 
> isn't standard html.  Or, sometimes, the image tags are in standard 
> html but point to somewhere online, so you'll see them if you're 
> connected to the Net, but not if you'd downloaded to look at them 
> offline later (this, obviously, isn't what's happening to you right 
> now).
>
> So we've got a few potential culprits for the behavior you've seen, 
> but they basically boil down to the person sending the email might be 
> using inline html image tags that aren't in a format Mail.app (or 
> whatever email client you use) likes.  You could blame your app or 
> their app, but your best bet if it's a constant problem is to check 
> out other mail handlers and see if they do any better.
>
> If you're using OS X on your iBook, this run-down of email clients at 
> Macworld isn't a horrible start:
> http://www.macworld.com/2002/10/features/email/
>
> Anyhow, that's my guess. The email utility I've written doesn't do 
> attachments just yet (really shouldn't be sending attachments/images 
> to email lists), but that's what I recall happening with html email 
> when I studied up a while back.  In any event, there's nothing wrong 
> with your iBook!
>
> Good luck,
>
> Ruffin Bailey
>
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