How to save linked content?
When I copy or move an email to a local folder content that is referenced by a link does not download and save. I want to save the linked content so I can view it later while offline. When the message is saved to a local folder I have to be connected to the Internet in order to see the linked content. This is the case even after I have previously viewed the content while online. How do I make Thunderbird download and save linked content so I can view offline?
Google searches and TB help brings up no answers that I can find.
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Sounds like you have non-synchronised folders so only headers are downloaded. Please read:
then scroll further down to the 'Configuring synchronization and disk space usage' section for info on how to set up folders to synchronise for offline use.
Sorry, I forgot to mention I'm using POP3, not IMAP. That setting is not available. All message content downloads when I retrieve the messages except for the linked images. I do not have 'headings only' selected. The linked content downloads and shows only when I open up the message and am viewing it. If I open up several of those types of messages in additional tabs the linked content does not show until I put the focus on the message.
No suggestions, anyone?
re : When the message is saved to a local folder I have to be connected to the Internet in order to see the linked content.
The 'linked content' is not actually in the email, only the link, so that's why you cannot see it when not connected to internet. When you select the message - have focus - then you are triggering the link to occur.
Remote content is auto blocked by Thunderbird (for obvious recurity reasons) unless you have allowed it.
Allow remote content is check marked so it is on. What I want is to view the message thus having the remote content show, and then save it for later offline viewing with all the remote content included in the saved copy. If that is clearly impossible to do, then someone please let me know.
Do websites, like the comic strip sites I'm subscribing too, have an option in their webpage code that prevents local saves?
Allowing remote content does not make it part of the email, it is still remote. You have simply allowed Thunderbird to load it for this email. The link is to say google.com and Thunderbird displays the information by accessing the remote location and fetching the web page data the same as if it were a web page in a browser. Moving or saving the email does not edit it to point to some other location for the remote content the sender included.
If you want to save a local copy of the image, right click it and select save image as in the same manner you can in a web page. That will not make it a part of the email, but it will allow you to build a library of comic strips. Note the save image as can be inhibited by the sender in the HTML code of the email to prevent what they consider illegal copying, and you are on your own then.