Cannot display remote images in HTML messages

Hi, Rob.

Let me understand... when you open an HTML-formatted email message, you do not see the embedded pictures. (I assume these are images stored on the sender's site, yes? That point back to the sender's site?)

If you've checked your Preferences, Viewing, Display remote images in HTML Messages and it looks right, then yes go ahead and try to see if removing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist does it. Quit mail. Move that to the desktop. Restart mail.

That will not hurt or delete your email, but if you are not regularly backing up you need to.

-fred

Hi Rob,

I found this thread because I have a similar issue, but in my case it is only email from one sender that is problematic. I thought it might have to do with it being flagged as junk, so I reset my junk setting and turned off junk mail filtering completely. It still does not work.

You may have already tried this, but in your case, I would try doing the same thing. Perhaps Mail sees the messages as junk? Try reseting your junk mail filters Mail -> Preference -> Junk Mail -> Reset. And make sure you have turned off junk mail filtering.

I am going to post a thread on my issue. It may answer the issue for both of us.

I am having a similar issue, one sender, images not appearing in-line. In my case the images are at the bottom of the message and also are there as attachments, but where they are supposed to appear I get a box with the blue ?. These images are not on a remote server but are included in the mail.

Also if I load entourage and get my mail everything works ok - go figure!

Any solution for this? I got exactly the same problem. In my office none of the Leopard Macs will show inline images in most emails. These emails used to work under Tiger.

I am having the same problem. I have the preferences set to display HTML images. But curiously, the images open in my mobile me account, when I use firefox, and using mail on my wife's ibook and on our imac.

I can't believe there's no answer for this at Apple Support! (I looked.) On my MacBook with Leopard (10.5.6 and Mail 3.5) the problem is fairly recent - I only noticed it a few days ago. Unchecking and rechecking the Display remote images in HTML messages does not work, and neither does restarting the computer (I rarely do, preferring to put it to sleep.) Before I removed the plist I thought I'd check here first, having the same reasons for reluctance as xrob - and a good thing I did, too. I'd hate to have the same (bad) experience as someone who already tried it. The only thing I can think that I changed recently was to add SSL support to (all) my accounts. Could that be the culprit? I guess not. I removed "use SSL" on one of the accounts but it changed nothing, except for the port number. I closed and re-opened Mail but did not restart the computer. And, where do you find the "load images" button?

I have posted the exact same question and have the exact same problem, also have a macbook and it is okay. Even a very tech at the apple shop locally could not fathom it out.Sorry can't help only commiserate
regards
elaineh

I am having the same problem, with the little blue boxes with the question marks in them. Why doesn't anyone at least answer and say we are working on this issue?

I guess that's 'cause they're not working on it... I'm getting so fed up at not being able to see my emails as they were intended to be seen (it's actually disruptive) I'm seriously considering looking into Entourage as per a previous post.

I have the same problem, and have had it since day one with this MacBook. No images display in HTML mail even though the preferences are set for them to display.

I've had the same problem too for months and I'm a bit savvy but have no clue.
Curiously I copy the contents of an email into a drupal website that I have and all the images showed up immediately. See http://www.repertory.org/d/node/123