Another Outlook Problem

Qui-Gon John · Post by **Qui-Gon John** » Sat Jun 12, 2021 10:46 pm

I am helping someone who has a very odd Outlook problem. Some of the emails he gets, will not display the pics that are linked to within the email. It is not the Outlook setting for this, because many/most of the emails he gets do display the pics. He forwarded one to me and I opened up my Outlook. Of the 7 new emails in that batch, only the one he sent had this problem. If I view that email on the webmail (bellsouth, at&t, which uses the Yahoo Webmail), the pics show up. I cannot figure out why some will not open in Outlook. The little message where the pics should be, say "file is missing or damaged" something of that sort.

Any ideas?

Post by **Philip** » Sun Jun 13, 2021 9:05 pm

Are the images linked from the web, or attached/included in the email?

You may want to try the menu under: "File > Options > Trust Center > Automatic Download > untick "Don't download pictures automatically in standard HTML email"

If they are just linked, it may be some type of protection preventing their viewing? If they are embedded, does Outlook support showing that format, etc.? Are you running a recent version of Outlook, what are the pic formats? Do you see the option in Outlook to "view email in browser"?

Qui-Gon John · Post by **Qui-Gon John** » Sun Jun 13, 2021 9:19 pm

Hi Philip. So first, they are linked to on the web. I have checked the Automatic Download settings in File-Options and all of that is set so every pic should load when you click on the email. In fact, the guy keeps trying to tell me I have a setting wrong, but since 99% of the emails work fine, I know that cannot be the issue. When not set this way, NO EMAILS automatically download the pictures. The other annoying factor is these are almost exclusively advertisement emails the guy really doesn't care about. He is just eccentric and when he sees this, as he clicks thru his Inbox, "he has to get it fixed", even though, 9 times out of 10, he just deletes these emails. The pics are not embedded. In fact, the message basically says it was unable to load the emails from the internet, because they have been removed, the link is no good or the picture is not a valid picture. Just trying to figure it out so I can satisfy his concern.

Post by **Philip** » Mon Jun 14, 2021 9:16 am

Outlook can be a bit temperamental at times, even though it is my email client of choice. Tell him ultimately he may need a different mail client to see all emails properly, heh.

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Fri Jul 02, 2021 11:10 am

Did the pictures originally come to him, etc., from a cellphone and are .jpg?
What OS are you using?

Qui-Gon John · Post by **Qui-Gon John** » Fri Jul 02, 2021 11:22 am

He has Win 7 and so do I. The emails are most likely not from a phone. They are mostly ads, sent on a mailing list. I think the pics are jpg, but not sure.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sat Jul 03, 2021 9:49 am

I always tell people save "save the attachment" out of email...and then open/do what you want to do with the attachment from where you saved that file.

You cannot control how people send email to you, what email client they use, if that email client is recent/updated, what format they send from. Not everyone sends email in modern formats (like HTML enabled). So...attachments won't always open up/display in the email body itself. When you're viewing that non HTML email from a browser looking at the mailbox, the mail server itself is redoing in HTML format.