FlexGmail Images Embedding/Viewing
When I forward an e-mail that has pictures in them, the recipient just gets the text and not the pictures in the message - can you tell me why that's happending or what I need to do to get the pictures to be included with the message.
An Aside: Embedding pictures/images in your flexgmail email account aka see how a thousand pictures can not match one well constructed paragraph/thought. I can hear you clucking right now. Guess no one has yet shown you pictures of their "cute as a button" new born baby? I'd rather have just used my IMAGINATION after viewing them!
There are two parts: One is ENCLOSING images (via embedding or file attachment) and the other is VIEWING images. Let's take the first.
How to ENCLOSE Images in Your Email
Via File Attachment
This method works for most every online email service including flexgmail. Just attach your images via FILE ATTACHMENTS. In flexgmail when you hit the reply button (or compose button), look carefully. You should see something called "Attach a File" with a pretty paperclip icon to the left of it. Click there and hopefully you got the smarts to figure out where your pictures are on your computer blah blah blah.
Via Image Embedding
However, say you wanted your recipient to view the images "live" right in your email? Well you are in luck! Recently flexgmail (well, gmail domain email services) released a "beta" widget that now allows you to enclose images right in your email's body text area. So finally gmail is like yahoooo and whatevers.
First off though, you need to check to see if you are using the "Newer Version" of flexgmail. How to tell if so? Well, look in the top right hand corner of your flexgmail webpage. If part of that says "Older Version" than this means YOU ARE USING THE NEW VERSION (counter-intuitive i know.) Vice versa if your top right hand corner has the words "Newer Version" then CLICK that to go to the new version of flexgmail.
Okay you are using the "Newer Version". Now to enable this schabang. Because this is still "beta" to EMBED images you need to install a LAB widget. Click on "Settings" in the top right hand corner.
In the new web page that opens up, look carefully for "Labs" link and click on that. Look for the widget by Kent T. called "Inserting Images". Click the "enable" radio button. Then go to the very bottom of the page and click on "Save Changes".
Note: Please for Internet sanity sake, don't go hog wild and start clicking on 1001 different widgets and then use each one in all your emails you send out. THERE IS NOTHING SO IRRITATING AS GETTING EMAILS WITH GAZILLION IMAGES, MAPS, VIDEO, ETC IN THEM. STOP IT!!!!!!
How to VIEW Images in Your Email
Okay, so you are happily spamming I mean "communicating" with whomever with all these images you've taken/stole/snarfed. Happy as a clam now huh?
BUTTTTTT. Hmmm. "I can't SEE any images in my emails that i get????"
Well flexgmail wants to serve and "protect" your innocent lamb eyes and by default will never show images in any email that you get via the flexgmail web interface. NEVER.
But each time you view emails for the first time that do contain images look carefully. There will be two links. One says something like "Display images below" and the other says "Always display images from obama@whitehouse.gov". If you click the second option, well... guess we'll all have to suffer eight years of this.
Spammers use images sometimes instead of text. That really is the reason for the default behavior of not allowing images to just be displayed without your permission.
Okay, time to actually answer this helpdesk ticket:
Check to see if your recipient is actually being denied access to images or if they just didn't "enable" it on their end...
