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| From | Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.software.thunderbird, alt.comp.software.firefox |
| Subject | Re: Pasting photos in html emails |
| Date | 2025-03-21 08:17 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <vrjlbh$1hl1p$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <09cualxkvk.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
On 3/20/2025 5:00 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sometimes I send html emails to friends with summaries of some news for
> chatting on them, and I add photos. Normally, the photos are links, so
> the email weight is small.
>
> Take this article, for instance (using firefox):
> <https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/03/photogimp-updated-to-help-switching-from-photoshtop-to-gimp-3-0/>
>
>
> I click on the first photo, then right click on the menu, and select
> "Copy Image". Then on the email, I simply do ctrl-v and paste the photo.
>
> But since recently, this has a twist. The email weights one megabyte. On
> TB, I double click on the image, and Image location contains
> "data:image/png;base64,iVBOR…8EtAFbFgqOrgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==". If I save
> the email, it has 1 megabyte.
>
> The remedy is to delete this line, go to firefox, right click on the
> image, select "copy image link", and on TB paste that link in the "Image
> Location" field of the photo
> (<https://ubuntuhandbook.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/gimp3-patched.webp>).
> Now when saving the email it weights just 3.5 KB.
>
> This was not happening some time ago, I always got the photo links. Now
> I have to be careful when sending photos that I don't get the heavy
> version.
>
> Why, what is going on?
>
It's always worked that way. Copy Image puts the image on
the Clipboard.You should never embed remote links in an HTML
email. Most people will have them blocked, anyway. If I remember
correctly, that's standard in TB. That kind of linking is mostly used
by commercial entities trying to look official, or by scammers trying
to look like an official bank email, or by spyware companies like
Constant Contact, trying to track each time you open an email and
how far down you read.
Either embed the image, attach the image as a file, or simply
paste the link. Embedding has also become awkward. Apple seems
to have different protocols. Other companies also butcher the
basic email protocols. MSWord creates an email full of "MSO"
HTML nonsense. Increasingly, email arrives with no text section, or
a corrupted text section. Recently I was faced with an email
from a passport photo service. The passport photos didn't show
as either attached or inline. I had to save the source code and
convert the base-64 encoding. And if someone reads their email as
plain text (which I do for security) then they won't see your pictures.
They may or may not then see them as attachments.
The old days of attaching EXEs and writing HTML emails are
gone due to security concerns. Email should be plain text.
All of this has nothing to do with
Firefox. Copy Image has always meant putting the image on the
Clipboard. Copy Image Link has always meant to put the URL on
the Clipboard.
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Re: Pasting photos in html emails Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-03-21 11:31 -0500
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Re: Pasting photos in html emails Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-03-21 15:59 -0500
Re: Pasting photos in html emails Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-03-22 16:43 +0000
Re: Pasting photos in html emails Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-03-22 16:26 -0500
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Re: Pasting photos in html emails Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-03-22 16:40 -0500
Re: Pasting photos in html emails Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-03-23 19:50 +0000
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Re: Pasting photos in html emails Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-03-24 18:32 +0000
Re: Pasting photos in html emails Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-21 11:33 -0400
Re: Pasting photos in html emails Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-03-21 17:24 +0000
Re: Pasting photos in html emails Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-03-22 16:47 +0000
Re: Pasting photos in html emails Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-22 13:31 -0400
Re: Pasting photos in html emails Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-03-22 16:10 -0500
Re: Pasting photos in html emails "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-22 23:50 +0100
Re: Pasting photos in html emails Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-21 08:17 -0400
Re: Pasting photos in html emails "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-21 15:12 +0100
Re: Pasting photos in html emails Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-21 11:30 -0400
Re: Pasting photos in html emails "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-22 15:40 +0100
Re: Pasting photos in html emails "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-27 14:32 +0200
Re: Pasting photos in html emails knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-05-27 09:34 -0400
Re: Pasting photos in html emails "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-27 16:07 +0200
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