177890 - linked images on html insertion become embedded

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 132257

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Andre Felipe Machado]

Sir: 
I used to publish my newsletter with Mozilla html only option. 
From v 1.1 to 1.2b now when I insert the html code, containing linked images, 
it always embedd them into the message. 
I did not  find any html insertion option to avoid this behaviour. 
Best regards. 
Andre Felipe

Comment 1

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

does the image you are inserting are local (file://...) or remote (http://...)?

Comment 2

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

What do you mean exaclty by "become embedded"? are you inserting an image or a
link to a image?

Comment 3

[Andre Felipe Machado]

Hello, 
I am inserting html code containing images stored on a remote server 
(http://www..../image.jpg ) 
When using Mozilla stable 1.1, the code remains the same. 
But when using beta1.2b, mozilla mail download and copy all images to local 
tmp files and insert them as embedded images (multipart mime, cid). 
So, a html page of 10kB, containing reference (link) to a 40KB image stored on 
a web server, becomes a 50KB email and does not download image only when user 
select message for reading and consuming mailbox space. 
Best regards. 
Andre Felipe 
 
 

Comment 4

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

that's not good! only local link should be embedded. I am not able to reproduce
this problem on Win2K with today's trunk build. BTW, which build ID are you using?

When inseting the link, try to add the following attribute to it:

                 moz-do-not-send="true"

you can use the avanced edit button in the insert link dialog. The HTML
generated should looks like:

href="file:.../image.jpg" moz-do-not-send="true">

Comment 5

[Andre Felipe Machado]

Hello: 
I downloaded and installed it again. 
Mozilla 1.2b 
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021017 

Comment 6

[Andre Felipe Machado]

Hello,
I downloaded and installed 1.2.1 rh7.3 rpm:
Mozilla 1.2

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021203

The unwanted behaviour continues.
Up to the version 1.1, this strange instruction was not needed.
The logic is: if I insert a remote site image, I do not want it embbeded.
If one wants to embbed such image, he/she should be able to "choose" (a
checkbox?, a similar  moz-send="true" instruction?) to do so.
The new way is counter intuitive for inserting images and source code. 
Best regards.
Andre Felipe

Comment 7

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

I am working on that issue and will have soon a solution, see bug 132257 for detail

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 132257 ***

Comment 8

[Vedran Miletic]

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