Thanks for your suggestion Mike.
I have broadband and have been using it successfully and virtually trouble
free for some years now.
Now I have now lost all images altogether on my emails and just get text. So
the problem appears to be increasing.
I have reinstalled my MS browser with no effect.
Could this be down to NTL who have got their server in a twist?
Or is their suddenly some problem with using Firefox and Outlook Express 6
together? I don't know because I don't know how the mechanism of getting
images into emails works. So I'm groping in the dark.
I am going to take the liberty of sending you direct a typical source
message copied into MS Word. In this I can spot jpg and gif images but they
are not getting onto the page. Cannot tell why. This is very good of you to
help in this way, I much appreciate it, the NTL Help Desk is of no use
whatsoever.

Baz


"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
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What kind of Internet connection do you have?

Often commercial e-mails do not include the images with the message.
Instead, in the HTML code is a link to the image on a web server. When
you open the message, OE will then start downloading the images. If you
have a dial-up connection that could take a minute or two or longer if
the images are large. Sometimes the server is busy and the image
download may fail.

If you look at the Message Source (Ctrl-F3) you can see if the images
are encoded at the end of the message (will look like lines and lines of
random letters and numbers).

For some additional information, see:
Decoding Internet Attachments - A Tutorial
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/decode.htm

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"david bazley" wrote in message
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This is my first message to this group so I hope I have the right one
for
this sort of question.

I have an unfamiliar problem with Outlook Express 6 that I cannot
solve.

Nearly all my emails from commercial sources to which I subscribe have
suddenly stopped showing any images - but I can see the text. But,
very
occasionally after a minute or so the images will appear. Yet the
images are
there all right because I can frequently copy and paste them into
another
programme where they do show themselves - but not always. In addition,
if
these images are hyperlinks then they work even though I cannot see
the
image but just the curser turning into a hand when it hovers over the
invisible image.

So I have
1.. Sent images, JPG and GIF to myself and they work.
2.. Got friends to send me images and they work.
3.. I have checked TOOLS/OPTIONS/SECURITY to make sure that the BOX
"Do
not allow attachments to be opened that could potentially be a virus"
is
unchecked.
4.. I have turned off my Norton email protection.
Then I ran out of ideas. So can anyone suggest what the problem is
please?

I use Win 2000. Yes I know it's out of date, but just haven't got
round to
changing it.

Many thanks

Baz