No pics on email

  • Thread starter Thread starter Philocophus
  • Start date Start date
P

Philocophus

My friends send me some emails with pictures included - not a separate attachment - with text.
Instead of seeing pics, I have a blank box with a tiny red cross in the top corner. Why is that and
is there a way of correcting this?

Philocophus
 
Philocophus said:
My friends send me some emails with pictures included - not a separate attachment - with text.
Instead of seeing pics, I have a blank box with a tiny red cross in the top corner. Why is that and
is there a way of correcting this?
Click to expand...

The red cross indicates that your mail reader (whatever it is, you left
us guessing) cannot fetch the image from wherever the mail says it is.

You could view the source of the email, and if it is in HTML then you
could copy the SRC= value from the <IMG> tag into your browser to see if
it has better luck. At least the browser should give you a rough idea of
the problem if it cannot access the images.

It's possible that the mail was created with the IMG tags pointing at
local files on the originator's system (daft, but possible).
 
Thanks, but I thought there was a simple way in that I may need to "turn on" some files to allow
viewing pics? I am trying to locate the tools to turn it on, or am I looking at the wrong direction?

Philocophus

************
 
If your using outlook express, then it probably thinks it's a suspect
attachment.
In OE go to Tools>Options>Security and UNCHECK the box that says "Do not
allow attachment to be saved or opened" then click ok.
Hopefully this will fix the problem.
Good luck,
Mickey




Philocophus said:
Thanks, but I thought there was a simple way in that I may need to "turn
on" some files to allow viewing pics? I am trying to locate the tools to
turn it on, or am I looking at the wrong direction?

Philocophus

************
Click to expand...
 
Philocophus said:
My friends send me some emails with pictures included - not a separate attachment - with text.
Instead of seeing pics, I have a blank box with a tiny red cross in the top corner. Why is that and
is there a way of correcting this?

Philocophus
Click to expand...

Scan your machine and clean up the caches.
Read this link:
http://www.fjsmjs.com/IE/redx.htm

HTH.
Regards,
nass
 
Many thanks - I have unchecked the box and the problem has been solved.

Philocophus

***********

Mickey Mouse said:
If your using outlook express, then it probably thinks it's a suspect attachment.
In OE go to Tools>Options>Security and UNCHECK the box that says "Do not allow attachment to be
saved or opened" then click ok.
Hopefully this will fix the problem.
Good luck,
Mickey
Click to expand...
 
Back
Top