[Users] Displaying pictures and graphics in emails

[Francois Ochsenbein]

That's a typical problem I encountered many times with the dillo
browser, but I don't know exactly how it could be solved (in Claws-Mail
or in the plugin ?). For a visualisation with dillo, the html part of
the message is extracted by CM and stored in a dedicated directory
(~/.claws-mail/mimetmp/ on Linux), and this file contains in my test
example:

 <img src="cid:part1.05F1EE27.B367DCC7 at gmail.com" ... >

The corresponding image (the part of the message introduced with
Content-ID: <cid:part1.05F1EE27.B367DCC7 at gmail.com> 
in its header) is not extracted by Claws-Mail, and therefore can't be
displayed by dillo (remote images are in general correctly displayed).
The image can be visualized by clicking on the right side of the message
panel, and then Claws-Mail extracts the image in the same directory,
but with a completely different name ("claws.3WTQZ0" in my example). 

The message would be correctly displayed by dillo if Claws-Mail could
extract the attached images with the named specified in the Content-ID
and remove the cid: component in the src attribute of the <img> tag. 
But I have no idea how complex the actual solution can be... and if CM
developers would like that idea (it's html...)

François

==> On 2021-03-09 T13:00+0100 (mardi 09 mars 2021),
    users-request at lists.claws-mail.org wrote:

>
>On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 21:06:20 -0500
>"a10hog at stny.rr.com" <a10hog at stny.rr.com> wrote:
>
>>Nope, that didn't work. There really must be a way to do this. If
>>Thunderbird can do, it must be possible. In other words, if I open
>>one of these emails in Thunderbird, all of the pictures and graphics
>>are displayed, but if I open the same email in Claws, none of them
>>are there. I wonder what Tbird does that Claws doesn't.  
>
>* Windows or Linux?
>* Have you installed "dillo" or "litehtml" and their plugins?
>
>CM is primarily a text/ascii email client. 
>
>I'm on Linux and I have installed Dillo plus the dillo plugin to view
>HTML emails or I click on "open with..."
>


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