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Remote content in incoming Thunderbird messages

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rrwidell
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Until relatively recently, incoming html emails included a notification on a yellow background that Thunderbird had blocked remote content, providing a preferences button to choose which, if any remote content to display.

Now- that still happens occasionally, but more often the email appears more as a simple html message and the above referenced notification doesn't appear. I have to select VIEW->MESSAGE BODY AS->ORIGINAL HTML in order to get that notification to appear on many messages.

What config option to I need to adjust to restore that notification on ALL incoming html messages?

Thanks, ron

Until relatively recently, incoming html emails included a notification on a yellow background that Thunderbird had blocked remote content, providing a preferences button to choose which, if any remote content to display. Now- that still happens occasionally, but more often the email appears more as a simple html message and the above referenced notification doesn't appear. I have to select VIEW->MESSAGE BODY AS->ORIGINAL HTML in order to get that notification to appear on many messages. What config option to I need to adjust to restore that notification on ALL incoming html messages? Thanks, ron

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sfhowes
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TB doesn't display remote images unless View/Message Body As is Original HTML, so that is why the notification is absent if the setting is Simple HTML or Plain Text.

rrwidell
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If only it were that simple. View->Message Body As->Original HTML is set as the default, and has been for years.

But the notification appears only intermittently. So I assumed that some config option had changed.

I just can't find it.

sfhowes
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rrwidell said
I have to select VIEW->MESSAGE BODY AS->ORIGINAL HTML in order to get that notification to appear on many messages. View->Message Body As->Original HTML is set as the default, and has been for years.

If Original HTML has always been the default, why do you need to select it for some messages? Check the Exceptions for Mail Content in Settings/Privacy & Security for any sites that are incorrectly classified. Or, just clear all entries and uncheck 'Allow remote content...' to reset everything.