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
    2011-01-17T21:28:07+00:00

    Hi guys,

    We apologize for any inconvenience this issue has caused you. At this time it is still under investigation and unfortunately we do not have an ETA.

    Thank you for your patience and understanding while we continue to investigate.

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-01-21T18:21:35+00:00

    Thanks, Rikka.

    Some recap just in case it helps:

    1. I only know one other person locally who has WLM, and she has the identical problem.
    2. It is easy to reproduce: simply send the email with inline pictures to yourself. The pictures are stripped out and presented as a slide show at the beginning of the mail.  Clue: WLM will always tell you that one or more pictures are missing when this problem occurs.  I don't see any missing pictures, only misplaced pictures.  (Note: If you send the mail as an attachment, the original formatting is preserved.  This really isn't an acceptable solution, since when you forward mail this way, you can't delete any of the extraneous garbage like forwarding addresses.)

    Hope this helps.  I can send additional samples if needed.

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-02-18T14:47:53+00:00

    Hey wa4anr I trust you haven't heard anything either. Nothing has changed here. My daughter-in-law just sent me an email telling me that what I sent her didn't make sense since all the pictures were deleted.

    Maybe we have to find something ourselves (possibly in a different technology) that actually does work.

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-04-17T19:35:33+00:00

    It's been 3 months since we last heard from Windows folks. Is a solution forthcoming?

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  5. Anonymous
    2011-04-18T12:27:06+00:00

    I am sorry but this is still a known issue in Windows Live Mail.

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