06.26.08
Howto: Enable Graphics in HTML mail
This is such a simple tip I can’t believe I did not discover it sooner, but thanks to reader Mobiledivide, I’ve learned how you can very easily enable graphics in the Modest mail client. This should work for Diablo as well as pre-Diablo installs of Modest.
Via the Maemo Extras repository, download an application called gconf-editor, which will let you control all kinds of interest settings for various apps. I imagine you might be able to do some damage if you are not too careful, but for this purpose, all should be fine.
Once installed, fire it up and navigate to Apps / Modest. You should see something that looks like this:
I’ve already checked the fetch external images option which is what you need to check in order to get HTML mail fully enabled. That’s it. Enjoy!
Technorati Tags: modest, diablo, chinook, maemo, html, images email
Cintra said,
June 27, 2008 at 1:49 am
Thanks for the tip
Quim said,
June 27, 2008 at 3:32 am
Thanks!
Consider posting this interesting tip to http://wiki.maemo.org before it gets forgotten here.
Marius Gedminas said,
June 27, 2008 at 6:05 am
There must be a reason why this is disabled by default. Privacy implications? Some spammers track valid email addresses by generating unique image URLs and waiting for HTTP requests when the mail client tries to load them.
Jonathan Greene said,
June 27, 2008 at 6:30 am
this settings is not simply off, but actually hidden. i can’t figure out why it’s not a user preference particularly in the release version of the client. knowing you are being tracked is a good reason to leave images off, but if you are only getting the html version of a message say from flickr with your daily friend updates, it is totally worthless without images.
i am not seeing any performance issues with mail delivery or loading on edge, 3G or wifi … images only get downloaded when you open a message.
I would like to see this as a proper preference setting.
GC Blog: Why??? said,
June 27, 2008 at 9:47 am
b nik said,
June 27, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Many thanks for posting this. Absolutely should become a user set option instead of being hidden. Saves me opening many e-mails in web browser.
lauren said,
June 27, 2008 at 2:42 pm
along with:
1. the ability to change the fonts modest uses
2. the ability to see more than one account without going thru some ridiculous menu selection tricks
3. the ability to filter messages into folders
sadly modest falls short on all usability issues and of course was adopted by nokia as the official email client … why they would do that i have no idea … but it sucks and its sad
*sighs*
Jonathan Greene said,
June 27, 2008 at 3:39 pm
I guess for me mobile mail is primarily my inbox to keep tabs on things and I tend to not need access to any other folders. I used to have a much more complicated email configuration with a deep IMAP folder hierarchy but Gmail changed all that for me … since I know I can find anything
Anonymous said,
June 28, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Images can take a lot more memory than just text and device running low on memory makes it unrealiable (like on Desktop, Glib/Gtk (and Qt) programs abort if allocation fails). If you’re running just e-mail with large mailbox(es), it’s not a problem. If you have also browser running and maybe maemo mapper, well…
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Faheem said,
July 18, 2009 at 5:23 pm
For those who won’t (for whatever reason)/can’t install gconf-editor: “gconftool -t bool /apps/modest/fetch_external_images -s true” from a terminal will do the same.