View Pictures in Email

Question

I received a push email today from eBay. It began like this:
Can't see the pictures?  Select "Enable all Message Content"
Does anyone know how to do this?  Thanks!
~Lorrie~ Master of All Things Blackberry!

Answer 1

lorriem1222 wrote:
I received a push email today from eBay. It began like this:
Can't see the pictures?  Select "Enable all Message Content"
Does anyone know how to do this?  Thanks!
this line of text comes from ebay. I'll explain : today, more and more spam comes to people. One way is to buy thousands of email addresses (cost is about 100 thousand addresses for 5$). But these addresses are not verified. (verified addresses cost much more). So, one way of doing the thing, is sending an email to all the unverified addresses, and put something in the email to detect if the address realy exist. It is usually done through an image. The image links to a website that will understand the information "this email address works, because someone opened the email and the spy-image says so".
So, modern mail clients have an option to not display images in emails, you have a button or a link to display the images when you are sure the mail is not a spam or a scam. For instance, in GMail the link is called "Display images below" . This prevents the user to just shout to the spammer "Hey you ! you have my email, it really works, so you can send me more spam".
That's what ebay is telling you : click on that link.
Now, concerning the Blackberry (at last !) :
you can't view images embedded in emails unless you have Handheld OS 4.5. If you have, maybe your BIS or BES allows you to view images in email.
Usually, legit newsletters, next to that line of text "enable all message content", have a link "can't read this email correctly ? Click here to view it on our website".
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