When forwarding emails, pictures are stripped from text & put in slide show destroying original

Anonymous
2010-12-18T18:38:53+00:00

I have Windows 7 & IE8. When I receive a perfectly good email with pictures or gif's embedded in the text and TRY TO FORWARD IT, the forwarded email has all the pictures stripped out & put in a slide show. The text is full of the dreaded red x's & the whole thing is unreadable.

How can I stop this? Turn off the slide show feature?

Windows for home | Other | Email and communications

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-02-22T10:25:51+00:00

    A solution to the issue about photos-being-stripped-from-the-mail text-and-placed-in-DIASSHOW.

    Being one of those many WLM users with this problem I  consulted my native Microsoft Comunity on this issue - and after a long series of useless experiments I was adviced to uninstall   SPAMFIGHTER.

    Removing this very popular program from my computer caused the long-time-wanted photo function to reappear - just like that !

    If you use SPAMFIGHTER you better try this miracle cure for yourselves . . .

    Best wishes from a happy man . . .

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-02-22T17:23:33+00:00

    Just how many of us have SPAMFIGHTER installed on our computers Trolle. Some of us don't use the thing but we still have the problem with WLM.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-02-22T17:33:48+00:00

    I'll ditto the comment on Spamfighter, I have never had it either.  To restate the problem, I see pictures disappear, replaced by 'holders' and attached as .jpg (or whatever) files ONLY when corresponding with non-Microsoft e-mail programs.  The pictures stay where they are supposed to when I communicate back-and-forth with Outlook users, but Mozilla's Thunderbird and some web-mail utilities ALWAYS cause WLM to strip the photos received from these users and re-sent.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-02-22T17:51:51+00:00

    Thanks for the suggestion - However I have never installed or used SPAMFIGHTER. The only thing I have ever installed and used is Microsoft Security Essentials. If this is the problem, and I don't believe it is, it would be one Microsoft program interfering with another Microsoft program.

    Way back in May 2011, Windows Live Glenn M said - - -

    Hi everyone,As already confirmed on this thread, this is a known issue with Live Mail that should be fixed in the next release of the client. I'm afraid we still have no exact time to confirm when the next release will be. Updates should be posted in these forums.

    We are still waiting for the known issue with Live Mail to be fixed. I very much doubt that this will ever happen.

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-02-22T18:16:59+00:00

    I've never heard of Spamfighter either but I use Bellmail, the same thing as Hotmail, and all use Microsoft as their email provider. I have never had a spam issue with this account and have no need of something like Spamfighter.

    However, I'm still able to get around this problem if I log on to my ISP & forward emails instead of using WLM which seems to me to be the crux of the problem.

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