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Re: Pasting photos in html emails

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 11:30 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<vrk0le$1r6b0$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 3/21/2025 10:12 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> On 2025-03-21 13:17, Newyana2 wrote:
>> 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. 
> 
> Not the case. My friends prefer a link that doesn't use space. And I 
> have been doing this for about two years, works fine. It doesn't matter 
> if the link doesn't work next month.
> 
> Embedding they certainly do not like, uses space.
> Pasting the link is cumbersome, they have to click on it.
> 
> It doesn't matter that marketers abuse the system. They know the photo 
> links come from me.
> 

   Then just paste in the link. You don't need to make it
a remote link in the email. If you keep doing it that way
it may work, but you should be aware that email clients
now default to blocking remote images from loading. So
some people may not see the images.

   I wonder about your friends. They find it tedious to click
a link? Why do they bother to breathe? Or could it be
that they don't expect your links to be interesting enough
to click? Nothing personal, but if I had the slightest expectation
that someone was sending me something interesting, I'd
have no hesitation loading it to see. So I have to wonder
about your links. I have friends
who like to send things like the joke of the week. I never look
at their stuff, whether links or attachments, because I'm
not interested in seeing a dog using an electric razor.

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Pasting photos in html emails "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-20 22:00 +0100
  Re: Pasting photos in html emails "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-03-20 17:51 -0400
    Re: Pasting photos in html emails VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-20 17:36 -0500
      Re: Pasting photos in html emails bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2025-03-21 06:15 -0400
        Re: Pasting photos in html emails VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-21 18:52 -0500
          Re: Pasting photos in html emails bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2025-03-22 22:22 -0400
      Re: Pasting photos in html emails "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-21 12:39 +0100
        Re: Pasting photos in html emails VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-21 18:57 -0500
          Re: Pasting photos in html emails "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-22 15:32 +0100
      Re: Pasting photos in html emails Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-03-21 17:08 +0000
        Re: Pasting photos in html emails "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-22 15:34 +0100
      Re: Pasting photos in html emails NFN Smith <worldoff9908@gmail.com> - 2025-03-21 17:05 -0700
  Re: Pasting photos in html emails Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-03-21 06:40 +0000
    Re: Pasting photos in html emails "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-21 12:41 +0100
      Re: Pasting photos in html emails Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-03-21 11:48 +0000
        Re: Pasting photos in html emails "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-21 13:59 +0100
      Re: Pasting photos in html emails Retirednoguilt <HapilyRetired@fakeaddress.com> - 2025-03-21 09:27 -0400
        Re: Pasting photos in html emails "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-21 15:07 +0100
          Re: Pasting photos in html emails Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-03-21 11:31 -0500
            Re: Pasting photos in html emails Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-03-21 17:17 +0000
              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
            Re: Pasting photos in html emails "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-22 15:35 +0100
              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
                Re: Pasting photos in html emails Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-03-24 01:36 -0500
                Re: Pasting photos in html emails "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-24 11:50 +0100
                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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