GIF files (MIME attachments) in incoming mail display too large

This happens only in messages I get from my service provider about msgs their Spam filter catches.
They attach small GIF files to differentiate the kinds of Spam in the list, i.e. money offers, gift offers.
The first time each image appears it's the correct (small) size, but subsequent lines have large pixelated displays of the same image.
Main problem is that the large images on each line space out the lines in the Spam list so that it's a real nuisance to scan through. (I like to check it because legitimate msgs get caught sometimes.) My service provider doesn't know what causes this; it started after a recent software upgrade so I suspect one of my settings is wrong but I can't find which one it is.

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Feb 15, 2009 7:50 AM

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Feb 20, 2009 9:56 PM in response to lovewinter

Same problem here - and we are probably using the same spam software.

I had no problems with the emails I had been receiving with the MIME attachment images for 4+ months. Although another co-worker was having the same issues that you are describing as soon as we started using this new spam filter software.

The only change I made today was a configuration on my Toolbar, the first I've ever made with Mail. It immediately 'broke' the images in my email. So it seems like some type of 'preferences' setting can't render or read the image after the initial configuration is changed.

Feb 23, 2009 8:46 AM in response to lovewinter

Just to follow up -

The same email can be viewed perfectly on Safari Webmail, iPhone, Outlook and Thunderbird.

Also - I have about weeks worth of these daily emails saved. If I select one of them and do 'Message' => 'Send Again' it converts the inline HTML to the proper view. The gifs are all the correct, small size.

But all the other emails from different days do not convert to the proper view when I try this method.


Any ideas? Or is Mail.app 3.5 just hosed on 10.5.6?

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