opening pictures,cartoons in email

Hi Folks,I'm using WinXP Home,Netscape 7.1,which is my preferred mail program,andIE6 sometimes .When I receive email with a cartoon or animated drawing (gif's I think), and load the file,any text will load,but where the pictures should be I just get an outline box with a tiny square with one folded corner and three colored dots in it,an icon of sorts up in the left corner.
If I send such an email to myself out of Netscape and receive and open it with IE6 the mail opens completely including the graphics.
When I open a regular webpage using Netscape and with an outline box as described above with the little icon in it the graphics part of the web page fills in normally after fully loading,but not when it is part of an email.
I can't seem to understand why Netscape Mail is behaving this way.Mail and Newsgroups settings in the Preferences menu doesn't seem to suggest the reason why.
However I am confident all you clever folks can suggest a solution.

 

Terry,
I don't have a satisfactory answer, since I have not seen what you (don't) see. One thing I miss is that you tried to send a Netscape message to yourself.
There must be something wrong with your settings because my default viewer program is IrfanView, and, if needed the message will open in it. There is no reason in the world to go to Internet Explorer to open an image file, and it does not have mail and, IE is no more a viewer program than Netscape is.
But the images should be viewable if applied properly. That little icon indicates a broken link, so, something was not done correctly.

 

Westside,to clarify a bit I sent an email that I had received through Netscape mail and couldn't display the graphics along with the text that it included,so I forewarded it to myself as a test and retrieved and opened it using Outlook mail and the graphic part of the mail opened as it should.
As I said previously when graphics(photos,sketches, cartoons etc) are included in webpages that I am browsing using Netscape the graphics open normally,just not when part of Netscape mail.
Also,I sent the mail "test" to my Hotmail address and it didn't display properly either,still had the box outlines with the little corner icons in them where the pictures,cartoons should have been.So only Microsoft Outlook can open such email for me it seems.

 

Terry,

What program have you chosen for the default graphics viewer? If you have no default graphics viewer assigned to view these images, then that could be your problem. Open Windows Explorer and click on View | Folder Options | File Types

Scroll down to ICO, GIF, JPG, or any of the graphic File Types. Is any program listed when you click on Edit, and in the next window click on Edit again?

Also check your settings in Edit | Preferences | Privacy & Security | Images
Have you allowed images to be loaded?

Edit | Preferences | Advanced | System
Have you enabled these settings:

HTML

http (hypertext transfer protocol)
https (Secure HTTP)

Those are the ONLY settings to enable in that Preference.

Ramona

 

opening pictures in email

Ramona,A little confusion on following your instructions:
Windows Explorer| Tools(not View)|Folder Options|File type
After clicking on FileType I got a whole bunch of Extensions and File Types in a chart called Registered File Types.
ICO,GIF,andJPG were listed there.
There was no Edit button.The only buttons in the window were:New,Delete,Change and Advanced.
It looked like all "Registered File Types" were active or just waiting to be opened by Netscape as there were no boxes to check beside them. So what do I do here?

As far as the other settings:Edit | Preferences|Advanced|System:
I put check marks by HTTP,HTTPS,HTML as there were no checks there before.
Why don't I add checks beside ICO,GIF,JPEG Images ?? You seem emphatic about me only enabling the three file types that you listed.Thanks for your help.

 

Terry,
Ramona is correct with the second part. Netscape is not to be used with Image files. I am still confused as to the reason why that choice exists ( may be the developers were confused.
As for part 1, you click on change, and you will be presented with a list of programs to be used to Open with. Window and Fax viewer is one choice, but you can select any suitable program. But, almost anything but Netscape.
In my case, I had selected IrfanView as default, and made sure that the boxes were unchecked in the Netscape System Settings.

 

Westside, some clarification needed: Tools|Folder options|File types. Ok, suppose I highlight gif files in the list. Here's what it says:
"Details for 'GIF' extension
Opens with Quick Time Player Application "
Here's my question.Do I click on 'change' and select 'windows and fax' for example,click ok and do the same for every other graphic file listed? For ICO,JPG,JPEG and whatever else? Please tell me if that's right. Thanks

 

Terry,

What program do you use when you aren't online, to view graphic files? Whatever that program is, then that is what you want to select.

What you can do is highlight a GIF file, right click, and select: Open With
(this may be different in Windows XP)

Scroll to the Program you are using, select it, and insert a tick in the box beside the "Always use this program to open this type of file ". That should add it in the file types as well.

What Westside and I are saying, is that it is unnecessary to use a 30MB browser to open a 10KB GIF file if you have a graphics viewer. If you have no graphics viewer, then you might think about using IrfanView. It is excellent, freeware, 850+ KB, and is updated fairly often. The settings are there to associate all your graphics files, or your choice of files, with Irfanview. Found here: http://www.irfanview.com/

Sorry I confused you with the Windows Explorer options. My OS is Windows 98SE, so I can only assume if the user has XP, they will know where their options are found.

Ramona

 

Just a reminder, for those less experienced users who may read this thread,
if you dont know the sender, dont open any e-mail attachments, it could
contain a virus or other things that may damage your system.

savagcl

 

opening pictures,cartoons in netscape mail.

To Westside and Ramona, It's still bugging me that I can't open graphics in email,jpg's,gif's usually.So I took Westside's advice and installed Irfanview and plugins. I've been looking at that program and want to know how I can associate it with Netscape mail-to use it to open graphic files that won't open in the Netscape mail window. I haven't changed any file associations yet-am awaiting your advice.

 

I did nothing special with Irfan View. I checked Options|Properties or set file asociations, and if there is an image which does not open in Netscape, it will call up on IrfanView (affectionately known as Splat, for roadkill, at this house).
If the images are sent correctly they should be viewable in Netscape mail, but I have not seen IrfanView fail, and it is great with non image files, as Ramona implied.

 

For Netscape 4.9, this is how its set up.
Maybe a little different for your version of netscape tho.

Look under Edit>Preferences>Applications, in the description box find "JPEG
Image" (or add it via "New Type" button).

If JPEG Image is already present:
Highlight JPEG Image and select "Edit ". In the file type details it should show
you what application (Handled By) is being used for JPG files.

Mine looks like this:
File type details:
Extension: JPEG, JPG, JPE, JFIF, PJPEG, PJP
Mime Type: image/jpeg
Handled By: Netscape (internal)

If you want to use ifranview, just click on the "Handled By: and provide
whatever it want for irfanview to be used.

This causes netscape to show all files of the mime-types shown with out any
external applications being needed.

If this dont do it for you, at least it'll get you started on the right track...

savagcl

 

Just for the record, decimal points count in the version. There is no 4.9, so probably, 4.79 was meant.
Secondly the settings must accessed from the Windows general settings, as Ramona said..
"I can't seem to understand why Netscape Mail is behaving this way.Mail and Newsgroups settings in the Preferences menu doesn't seem to suggest the reason why."
How do you determine that? In my case, I have set Thunderbird to be my default mail, with Firefox1.0 as default browser. You can replace that with Netscape7.1, and you will have your situation. In my case the red square is shown by IE.
I am trying to understand what's going on, and, I don't think I can. Should I assume that this cartoon is entered in the mail, all by itself, with no link to the website? I know that I cannot send such images because they reside on my computer. It would be ok if they are on a webpage. Anyway, I sent out an image with a brief e-mail to three people, one of which is using Mozilla.
I had right clicked and save the cartoon on my desktop. I then selected to include it in my e-mail using the Image icon, just to the left of the smilies.
I don't know the answer but it is included in an e-mail sent to another address of mine.