How to to disable the obtrusive message that crops up in incoming messages: "To protect your privacy, Thunderbird has blocked remote content in this message."
Is there any way to disable the large and obtrusive message that crops up in most of my incoming messages: "To protect your privacy, Thunderbird has blocked remote content in this message." I'm still struggling with the many terrible new "features" of Windows 8, one of which is incongruence of font sizes and inability to scale them properly as in previous Windows versions. The obnoxious Thunderbird warning above, takes up most of the space of what otherwise would be the message itself. I then must use the tiny scrollbar to see the actual content of the message, or take an extra step in the "Other Actions" menu to open the message in a new tab. I'd just like to be able to see my actual incoming message, but Thunderbird's warning takes up at least 60% of the space. Is there a way to hide or disable the warning, while still maintaining the block on incoming remote content ? If not, there should be, in your next version. Thanks.
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Change your privacy settings
I have this problem too -- the only difference is that I do not want to maintain the block. I would just like to see my entire message unblocked for ALL my incoming emails, rather than removing the block on each individual email.
It worked. Problem solved. Thank you very, very much.
Vinny
The thing that annoys me is that the remote content warning is shown even for contacts that I have already manually added to "Personal Address Book" (the same happens with the scam warning).
Reply #3 says "The only way to hide the warning while maintaining the remote content block is to add selected senders to an address book".
The KB entry in reply #2 says "Doing this adds an entry to the address book that has the "Allow remote content" option (older versions of Thunderbird called it "Allow remote images in HTML mail") checked for the specific sender. You can also change this option for an address book entry by going into the address book, looking at the properties for an entry, and selecting/deselecting the "Allow remote content" checkbox."
I'm using Thunderbird 31 on Windows 7 64-bit. Having a sender in an address book does not prevent the Remote content warning from showing up on messages sent by that sender. The only checkbox in the six tabs (Contact, Private, Work, Other, Chat, Photo) in a contact properties dialog is in Contact and it reads "Always prefer display name over message header". I have no "Allow remote content" checkbox in the contact properties dialog. Is that chechbox still somewhere?
How can I make Thunderbird understand that remote content warnings and scam warnings should only apply to unknown contacts (i.e. contacts that aren't in my address book)? Thank you.