I'm using Thunderbird 15.0 on Ubuntu 11.10 and I've forwarded a message with inline images to other Thunderbird users and to Outlook users and there is no setings in either mailclient that will solve the problem. The inline code in the original email for the image part starts with :
--------------010507070701020306020905 Content-Type: image/png; name="Screenshot at 2012-09-02 23:16:07.png" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Screenshot at 2012-09-02 23:16:07.png" iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAZQAAAEOCAIAAAAhWnbSAAAAA3NCSVQICAjb4U/gAAAAGXRF WHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBnbm9tZS1zY3JlZW5zaG907wO/PgAAIABJREFUeJzsvV2SLFmOpPep4rhH <base64 encoded image shortened> SYuM2cyrxzWGS0ZcNp/m67re15pv/57rvdabBsUN/e2OcflcFeXaL/73//E/8a/Xv17/ev3r 9f/b6/8BZjIKYj4am+kAAAAASUVORK5CYII= --------------010507070701020306020905 In the forwarded email the code is --------------060502040007080707000208 Content-Type: image/png Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-ID: <[email protected]> Thisbodypartwillbedownloadedondemand --------------060502040007080707000208 I'm not sure how the "Thisbodypartwillbedownloadedondemand" is supposed to work and I'd very much like to have an explanation from the developers on this one. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260260 Title: inline message images will not forward Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: thunderbird Inline email message images are lost when message is forwarded or replied - they refuse to remain within the body of the forwarded or replied email message. Ubuntu 8.04, TBird version 2.0.0.16 (20080724) ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Aug 21 22:11:20 2008 Dependencies: DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04 Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-thunderbird.list] PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: thunderbird Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/260260/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
