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Help iDont display embedded images in gmail?

chris.h

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So I get an email with embedded pictures... all of the pictures show up as a box with a "?" in the middle and there is no option to show pictures. WTF?

If an image is attached it will display. If an image is embedded it will not display. If I go to gmail.com on the phone the image again will not display. If I go to gmail.com on my computer the image is there.

Again, wtf? I hope there is some setting that I'm missing here...
 
The people who are not having problems are not getting what the issue is here. I have the same problem on my Eris.

The email that has a "show pictures" or "download pictures" options: either the mail was sent as attachments or the pictures are hosted on a server and Gmail gives you these options.

What is being talked about here are embedded images, i.e. those images that are directly inserted in an html message. Messages from Outlook have this capability as well as certain other programs such as Photoshop Elements.

This may be a bug or a security feature. Spammers use embedded images to report back to a server that the address is good. However, if this was the case, why does the full version of Gmail on the PC allow embedded images to be show.

Also the BB email client displays embedded images properly.
 
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Yeah, I think the problem is when people right click and copy an image and then paste it in an email. Outlook will embed the image into the email, but it's not attached and not linked to the original picture via an html img tag.

If it's an html email with proper img tags then those ones seem to work.
 
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Not only is the embedded images not displaying, just a blue box with a ?. My friend sent me a photo he took with his Iphone and had the same blue box. Love the phone but even with my crappy BB storm I could a receive embedded images anybody know if there will be a fix have 30days to return?:(

The only easy way to see the picture is have them sent as attachments. Gmail will display them automatically without having to open the attachment.
 
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The people who are not having problems are not getting what the issue is here. I have the same problem on my Eris.

The email that has a "show pictures" or "download pictures" options: either the mail was sent as attachments or the pictures are hosted on a server and Gmail gives you these options.

What is being talked about here are embedded images, i.e. those images that are directly inserted in an html message. Messages from Outlook have this capability as well as certain other programs such as Photoshop Elements.

This agrees with what I'm seeing here. Embedded images fail. Attached or linked messages work fine.

This may be a bug or a security feature. Spammers use embedded images to report back to a server that the address is good. However, if this was the case, why does the full version of Gmail on the PC allow embedded images to be show.

Also the BB email client displays embedded images properly.

The security issue arises when images are linked in the email. Displaying the images causes your email client to retrieve the images from the source - usually the spammer's server - with unique URL that identifies the email address that the spam was sent to. Retrieval of the image verifies the validity of the email address.
 
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Well first its not a Droid problem for those who keep blaming the phone
it is the way the person sends it to you, (usually as a forward)
It is a gmail thing that has to do with spam and such through google
I had the same issue on my storm and wm phones gmail just doesnt simply see the images when it formats them. sometimes it even happens on a pc when you are looking right in gmail on pc it is looking more at the server then a forward as imap/pop
I do think gmail will get better with time more so as they are getting bigger with their own os really hitting the public more and more
 
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Well first its not a Droid problem for those who keep blaming the phone
it is the way the person sends it to you, (usually as a forward)
It is a gmail thing that has to do with spam and such through google
I had the same issue on my storm and wm phones gmail just doesnt simply see the images when it formats them. sometimes it even happens on a pc when you are looking right in gmail on pc it is looking more at the server then a forward as imap/pop
I do think gmail will get better with time more so as they are getting bigger with their own os really hitting the public more and more

Nope when I tried it was not a forwarded email. brand new composed email with an embedded image same result.
 
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Test results: Composed an email in Outlook w/an inserted picture.

On phone Gmail shows the email and the name of the attached image file, but no image, no option to open it (short/long press, menu options etc., don't offer any way to view the image). There is a frame sized to the image in the email body, with a small blue square in the center, but the image itself doesn't display.

Clearly the image should show, or at least there should be a "show pictures" button to make it appear. Defect/poor user experience.

I also sent the email w/embedded image to my work email address (set up via IMAP on the Droid) and had a different (somewhat better but still somewhat broken) result. In that case:

1. I got a "Show pictures" button
2. Clicking "Show picture" didn't result in the picture appearing
3. At the bottom of the email there was an option to Open or Save the attached picture.
4. I chose Open and was able to view the image in the Gallery image viewer
5. I returned to the email and the image still didn't show.
6. I exited the email and opened it again and now the image displays embedded in the email. The email app now appears to know where the embedded image is on my Droid.

This is something that Google needs to fix...this day and age not displaying embedded email images is a surprisingly lame issue to have to deal with. There should he a "Show pictures" option to allow viewing embedded images from any email source...
 
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