Re: Thunderbird base64 images?

On Sat, 7 May 2016 03:25:57 UTC, "Barbara" <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> On Sat, 7 May 2016 01:02:20 UTC, Dave Yeo <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> The view I choose doesn't seem to make much difference as far as 
> viewing the images.  I can read the text part, which has the 
> information I really need like account number, date, phone number.. 
> etc, but the images are a format Thunderbird cannot display.
> 
> The email header contains:
> 
> Subject: Purchase Confirmation
> be named: Purchase Confirmation.eml  This file contains all of the 
> various base64 parts that look like this:  (largely SNIPPED)   
> =================================================
> 
> ----boundary_117_830d9a03-5c00-4fa7-a4f8-81576d8602ba
> -------Begin Encoded File-------
> Encoded filename: 
> Decoded path: file:///G:\PICS\~1
> Encoding type: Base 64
> File size: 0KB
> --------End Encoded File--------
> 
> -------Begin Encoded File-------
> Encoded filename: 
> Decoded path: file:///G:\PICS\~2
> Encoding type: Base 64
> File size: 0KB
> --------End Encoded File--------
> 

Maybe the add-on named 'mnenhy' might be what you're
looking for...