Kevin!

I use Thunderbird 1.0 (on W98SE with the latest/updated freeware
versions of AVAST, Spybot Search and Destroy, AdAware SE Personal and
ZoneAlarm).  I have not blocked the downloading of HTML images
associated with email in T'Bird 1.0.

I am on the road using a laptop to download my email for OffLine
reading.  The images do not show up in the email and since commercial
email authors more and more are including pertinent information in the
images I often end up with messages consisting of nothing more than
blank rectangles with red dots in the upper left corner. Of course I get
the complete message if I read it online.

Do you have any thoughts on how to retrieve these images during the
downloading process so I can read the complete messages offline?

Thanks
Preston


Kevin Carlson said the following on 1/13/2005 5:14 PM:
 > Many emails now contain HTML with images that are loaded from the remote
 > server when you read them.  At minimum, this tells them that you
 > did read the email and they also get your IP address at the same time.
 >
 > Some email programs such as the freeware Mozilla Thunderbird allow you
 > to automatically block all email images unless/until you want to view
them.
 > This lets you check out emails without giving away any information.

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