Re: Thunderbird base64 images?

On Sat, 7 May 2016 09:01:42 UTC, "Mr. G" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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...
> 

That's the one I mentioned before.  Everything I can find out about it
says it worked up through Thunderbird version 24.  I tried it anyway 
with version 31.8.0 and of course it made no difference.  Guess the 
author of that add-on gave up trying to keep up with the newer 
versions of TB.


-- 
Barbara