Apparently Thunderbird’s default puts pictures as attachments both in a list of attachments as well as in the body of the text. This is annoying to many recipients.
I did a search of the their Help files and found a couple of ways that supposedly would tweak it so pics as attachments did not appear in the body of the email message.
One was to insert a line
(user_pref “mail.content_disposition_type”, 1); in the user.js file. Oddly, I do not have such a file, nor is there one anywhere on my drive, so went ahead and created one with just this line. That did not solve the problem at all.
Next, tried their other suggestion of going to Tools/Options/Advanced/config editor and changed the “Mail.content_ disposition_type” from 0 to 1. That did not do it either.
Any other way of fixing this? The embedded pics are huge. All I want is a list of the attachments without the embedded photos).
The closest I can find is that turning off “Display attachments inline” in the View menu prevents them from being displayed within Thunderbird, but it doesn’t seem to affect what goes out (since if I turn it off, send myself a graphic file, and then look at the received message the graphic reappears in the message if I turn the option back on).
That should.
Check to see that you have this file in the correct directory. If it’s not, Thunderbird will never open it, so of course it will have no effect. And the ‘correct’ directory can be difficult to find; partly it depends on how you installed Thunderbird and how many people are using it.
I’m not really an expert on this, but if you go to the Thunderbird help forums (Thunderbird Help), you will find people who are experts.