357671 - Images in messages do not appear should be enabled by defualt

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[John Brewer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7

Login into http://www.careerbuilder.com/share/login.aspx and set your preferences to email a report back to you and the inline messages do not apear, I had to go to 
the Thurderbird website help section 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.I just reformated and loaded Windows XP 
2.added all the Microsoft updated except for IE7 
3.and installed Mozilla 1.5.0.7 
3. imported my accounts from the old Program files mail folder that I restored.
4. and then installed Thuderbird v1.5.0.7,
Actual Results:  
check my messages and I notcied the inline email comming in my account do not show inline images like the old Netscape mail

Expected Results:  
Images in messages should appear and should be enabled by defualt in the preferenaces

I followed the instructions, see: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Images_in_messages_do_not_appear
Images in messages do not appear should be enabled by defualt

For remote images: go to "Tools -> Options -> (Advanced if using 1.07 or below) -> Privacy -> General" and uncheck the box for "Block loading of remote images in mail messages." It is recommended that you keep this checked as your default setting, however, as spammers can use remote images to detect whether you've viewed messages they've sent to you.

Comment 1

[John Brewer]

Changing the default of showing the inline images to appear in the mail message area would improve the user experience

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Changing the default of showing the inline images to appear in the mail
> message area would improve the user experience

Showing default messages (or loading other default content, such as style sheets or HTML <iframe> content) by default allows the message to be tracked, allowing for instance spammers to verify the various email addresses they send stuff out to.  Preventing this is considered more important than displaying fancy shiny messages in all their so-called glory.

Rather than turning off message blocking, you should consider adding the CareerBuilder address to your address book and enabling messages on that whitelist.