Thunderbird does not load remote content

[Antony]

I understand not loading remote content (images) is a protection. However, it is becoming annoying.

There are definitely certain emails I would like to have remote images loaded automatically. Somehow, I ended up clicking "Show Remote Content" button on each of those emails.



The link ("Always load remote content from ....") never works for me. Does anyone know how?

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[Fulvio]

That link works for me, but it is a nuisance, since it applies, only, to the specific site.
I can, easily, do away with that protection in Seamonkey, should I want to, by unchecking the box in Preferences|Mail and Newsgroups|Message Displays|Block all images etc.,for all sites.

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[Antony]

That link works for me, but it is a nuisance, since it applies, only, to the specific site.
I can, easily, do away with that protection in Seamonkey, should I want to, by unchecking the box in Preferences|Mail and Newsgroups|Message Displays|Block all images etc.,for all sites.

Thank you for the suggestion. Except I can't found the similar setting in Thumderbird 14.0.

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[Fulvio]

That link works for me, but it is a nuisance, since it applies, only, to the specific site.

I said that the link in Thunderbird works for me, while you said:

The link ("Always load remote content from ....") never works for me.

In addition, I said that I can get around the problem in Seamonkey. I, never, suggested that this would apply to Thunderbird.
However... Take a lookat this article

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[Antony]

Thank you. I will give it a try.

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[PaulD]

There are a few people who sometimes send me remote images. Their entries in the Address Book are checked Allow remote images in HTML mail. (I have over 20 address books - names are grouped by some association: my relatives, wife's relatives, where we became associated, etc.)

To accommodate businesses that send me emails, I have an Address Books named zImagesOKMail. (The 'z'-prefix puts it at the bottom of the list of Books.) A new card is made when a 'friendly' business first sends me an email with an image.

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[Antony]

Thanks Paul.

In OS X, Thunderbird uses two address books. One is Thunderbird's collection, and the other one is OS X's built-in version (which Apple encourages OS X applications to use the data from it so the users do not need to maintain two sets of address book). By turning off the built-in address book (in Thunderbird's setting), the "Always load remote content from ..." link seems to be working.

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