Inserting Remote Image In Mail Message?

Hi,
Is it possible to link to a Remote Image in an Apple Mail Message and have it load within the e-mail? What I mean is, can you link to a photo on a site like Flickr, and have the image display within the e-mail, rather than just the text link?

this is possible but you have to jump through hoops to do it which personally strikes me as completely ridiculous.
the only way I know how to achieve this is the following.
make an html document using your favorite html editor and insert a remote pic in it.
then open this file in safari and enter command+i. this page will be opened in a new outgoing mail message and you can mail it.
I would be delighted to know if there is an easier way to do this.

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In Mail 3.6 remote images in HTML messages display as blue squares with ? even though checked in viewing references.

Nurit,
The point is that that button should not be there, if the preference setting is as you say. This indicates the preference setting is stuck, and that is what I was trying to help you resolve.
The full purge is done as follows:
Quit Mail, and in the Finder open Home/Library and locate the Mail folder. Control-click over the Mail folder, and choose Duplicate -- then drag the resulting copy to the Desktop for temporary backup. Next, open Home/Library/Preferences and find the com.apple.mail.plist file and drag it to the desktop.
Relaunch Mail, which will open as though new, and when prompted to import anything DECLINE. Instead, re-enter your account info, and Mail will re-discover the account folders for your accounts, and all should be well, after setting preferences as you desire.
Ask any needed questions, and keep us posted.
Ernie

Cannot display remote images in HTML messages

Hi all.
This has been a problem since Tiger for me and ironically, is affecting me on two macs (although I sync the two together, so whatever the problem is, I'm guessing it's been copied to both locations). Here's the deal:
I cannot display images in my messages. If I click the checkbox (under viewing in mail prefs) "display remote images in HTML messages" I get the same behavior as if it is unchecked. I've tried checking and unchecking to no avail. My guess is a corrupted preference file, but I don't know which one. If I delete my mail prefs, will I need to do anything with regards to my mailboxes etc? I have over 3GB of offline mail, all filed away into hundreds of folders and do NOT want to mess with that.
Any suggestions are most appreciated. I'd love to see my images again without clicking on the "load images" button for EVERY email.
Thanks,
Rob

I can't believe there's no answer for this at Apple Support! (I looked.) On my MacBook with Leopard (10.5.6 and Mail 3.5) the problem is fairly recent - I only noticed it a few days ago. Unchecking and rechecking the Display remote images in HTML messages does not work, and neither does restarting the computer (I rarely do, preferring to put it to sleep.) Before I removed the plist I thought I'd check here first, having the same reasons for reluctance as xrob - and a good thing I did, too. I'd hate to have the same (bad) experience as someone who already tried it. The only thing I can think that I changed recently was to add SSL support to (all) my accounts. Could that be the culprit? I guess not. I removed "use SSL" on one of the accounts but it changed nothing, except for the port number. I closed and re-opened Mail but did not restart the computer. And, where do you find the "load images" button?

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I have remote images in HTML e-mails turned off in Mail.app, because most HTML e-mails I get with remote images are spam. But I get some legit e-mails with remote images, always from the same sender. There's no option in Mail.app's Rules to automatically show remote images if the message comes from a specific sender, but I do see an option to run an applescript.
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Sorry. I misunderstood your question. Here's a script that should do what you are asking for:
--BEGINNING OF SCRIPT
using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages theMessages for rule theRule
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I'm trying to either attach an image to a message post or insert it in-line with a message. I've read several references to this ability perhaps being something that will happen "soon", but those messages that refer to this are dated in August of 2009. Here it is December and I still can't figure out how.
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There are also messages in this forum that say you can paste from a Word document (there IS a "Paste from Word" icon on the toolbar.) However, when I paste from word, the images in my Word document are lost.
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There is no "View Image Gallery" link on my profile page.
Now, I am a computer consultant and therefore (hopefully) very computer-savvy, so this is not an issue with me being a forum "novice." But I've always had issues with help documents that say "click on this icon" and don't show a screenshot of where the icon is.
And, I can't PROVE that my profile page doesn't have a gallery link because I can't upload a screenshot! <grin>.
So, can anyone clarify if and how we can upload images? Or if there is a definitive help document that lays this out, provide a link to that document? The help "search" function is pretty weak, because it does a FORUM search on any term you type in, rather than restricting it to help documents.
There's also some references to having to be a "silver member" in order to upload images, but no information on what is required to become such a member.
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Greetings,
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Suddenly I see the usual blue box with question mark inside mail messages instead of pix.
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