Mail show Question Mark in Blue Box on iMac running macOS Sonoma

2tallpaul wrote:

This what i see on apple Mail. Mail version 16.0 (3774600.62

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/4dd38be0-1c8b-4b1c-b81d-d70305cfffe9

re:

Make change to your Mail>Settings...

Open Mail.app from the menu bar select Mail>Settings>Privacy disable all:

Protect Mail Activity

Hide IP address

Block all remote content

and compare your results

from 2022 maybe the image links in mail are no longer valid(?) This would be beyond your control.

2tallpaul wrote:

Question mark in blue box Mail 16.0, Sonoma 14.4.1.

This problem has a history of several years and no positive solution to date.

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Blue box where in Mail(?)

Screen shot would help elucidate your issue— which I am unfamiliar...

What I can say

The current stable release of Sonoma including bug fixes, security updates is macOS 14.5

Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support

Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support

I think they refer to incomplete ioading attachments. The blue box that appears with a question mark in place of an attachment in an email is either due to the message not completely downloading (which usually can be told by the Activity Window), or an attachment that wasn't properly loaded in the first place. There is a setting for always loading attachments. But for the life of me I can't find it in the preferences. I would only do so for email I trust has good attachments. Phishing emails can use attachments to bring bad files to the computer. Their odds of inflicting damage on Macs are slim, but not knowing the source of an attachment that plays as an executable file you may have bigger problems ahead.

Mail? AllI I see here is Safari

posting the hot link would be one way to check here for comparison, but you include no hotlink.

if I manually type in < https://www.bbqsmokermods.com/ >

I see right off there is an issue loading the CSS in Safari for this website....this would be a coding problem of some sort beyond your control.

For you missing images... all websites I can only assume(?) you do not say...

If it is isolated to this one example I would use what works if no resolve .

You can look at your Safari>Settings...make some changes

Privacy

Websites Website Data

Security< javascript

Extensions - disable

etc.

verify your software is up to date…                                                                                                       

The current stable release of Sonoma including bug fixes,  security updates  is macOS 14.5 —  I would start there                                

Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support

Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support