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Old February 28th, 2010, 04:29 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
Twayne[_3_]
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Default Red x

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Kjw typed:
Yes, he sends his emails in one go but the people I have asked are
using the same internet service I am and he does also. Their email is
fine with no red x. BUT, all other email from others I get has the
pictures even from the same internet service that we use. If it was
something on my end wouldn't it be doing it with all of my email and
not just the ones from him? I have tried Thunderbird and it is doing
the same thing. No pictures. No, I don't have Outlook Express set to
not accept attachments that could be dangerous? That has been turned
off and still is. It's just strange to me that I get embedded
pictures just fine from everyone except him and that others get it
just fine from him even though we all use the same internet service.


Hmm, beats me! All I can think of is to go thru OE's Tools; Option and
Control Panel's Internet Options, looking in each tab for anything that
might cause it. Did you try CTRL-ALT-H, just for grins? Probably not the
fix, but ... can't hurt.
I'd ask your ISP about it too; they might have something turned on that
you're not aware of.
Beyond that, all that's left is file corruption or malware, AFAIK right
now.

Hope you'll let us know when you get it solved?

HTH,

Twayne





"Twayne" wrote:

In ,
Kjw typed:
Yes, he is forwarding them but no he nor any of the others are AOL
subscribers. Yes, I can send myself one with the graphics showing
and can receive from others with it showing. But, this is the
strange part, he is sending these messages all as a group. He and
others including myself all use the same internet service. The
others get these same emails with the graphics showing. If it was
on my end, I wouldn't be receiving from myself and others with the
graphics showing, would I. Plus, if it was on his end, the others
that he sent it to at the same time as myself wouldn't be getting
them with the graphics showing, would they? This is weird. Can
anyone explain this?

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

Is he Forwarding all of these messages and is he an AOL subscriber
and/or are the other recipients AOL subscribers?

If you can send yourself an HTML message with embedded graphics and
you can see the graphics, not a Red X, in the received email, the
problem is NOT on your end.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002


Kjw wrote:
I know this subject has been discussed before but I haven't found
anything that covers my problem. All email I receive from this one
person has the red
x if there is a picture in it. BUT, all email I get with pictures
from others works fine. Before you tell me it's on his end, he
also sends it to several other people I know and they say theirs
has the picutres and NOT the red x. I have checked my firewall,
virus, etc. settings and can not find the problem. It's strange
to me that all email works except the ones from him and that
others gets the same email from him that is sent at the same time
and theirs has the picture. It seems like if it's a setting on my
end, then why are the others working? Plus, if it's something he's
doing, why does everyone else get it with the picture and not the
red x? Can anyone explain this? This is weird. Thanks.

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Assuming he sends all the mails in one go and not separate sessions,
then if some recipien ts see the images OK and some do not, it is
NOT anything at his end. It's highly likely to be a setting on your
own computer's client or in your account settings at your ISP.

Too many variables/possibilities and too little detail to target a
response accurately, but ...
-- Is your ISP scraping and deleting the attachments? Usually that's
a selection around the AV protection area of the ISP's settings, on
his server.
-- Are you the only one in your group that uses your particular
ISP? ISPs can have differeing settings and defaults so if ISP X
works OK, that doesn't really say ISP Y will work OK.
-- Have you set your client Options to not accept attachments that
could be dangerous? If so, turn it off.
-- The fact that others see them isn't helpful unless you also know
that all the others are using the SAME mail client and version of
their mail client as you are using, have all selected the same virus
and spam an d attatchmen t settings the ISP may offer and all are
identical. -- Have you, just for grins, tried installing Thunderbird
or any other mail client to see if it sees the images OK? If another
client does see them, then it's going to be some setting on your
end. Actually that's what I suspect it's going to end up being
anyway. Try comparing you computer account and ISP settings with
someone and look for differences, and/ore try installing a different
mail client. The browser counterpart of Thunderbird is FireFox - an
excellent browser with only a couple very annoying "features" but
they're harmless.

HTH,

Twayne




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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered
through personal experience does not become a
part of the moral tissue.

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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered
through personal experience does not become a
part of the moral tissue.