Re: Thunderbird base64 images?

On 05/06/16 09:40 AM, Barbara wrote:
> On Fri, 6 May 2016 15:15:10 UTC, Dave Yeo <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Barbara wrote:
>>> I'm using Thunderbird 31.8.0 for email.
>>>
>>> Has anyone managed to correctly display a Thunderbird email which has
>>> a couple of base64 formatted images which need to be decoded?
>>>
>>> So far as I can determine, the email is an html page from my cell
>>> phone service to confirm autopay charges.  I can read the plain text
>>> part, but the images are blank.
>>>
>>> gmail is my email client, and my iPhone displays the email correctly.
>>>
>>> This is not a big problem.... Just curious.
>>>
>>
>> Have you tried right-clicking on an image and choosing display or
>> similar? IIRC TB by default dowen't show images fo security reasons but
>> there is a setting somewhere to change this
>> Dave
>
> Yes, I'm familiar with the "To protect your security...." bar that
> pops up for "normal" html pages where you can click "preferences" to
> display images, but for the base64 coded image pages that bar does not
> appear.  Right-clicking has no "display" option.
>
> No big deal.  I just wish the phone service would send a plain text
> email without cute pictures attached.   grrrrrrr.
>
>

Under View-->Message Body As, do you have Original HTML checked or 
Simple HTML or Plain Text? Whichever, try changing to Original or Simple.
Dave