Internet Pictures Blocked - XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Ok this may be a dumb question, and quite possibly Im missing something simple.
I have my email set to download the full message I'm on an unlimited data plan and mainly use the data plan for my email. so i'm not worried about data usage.
however my onto my question, when you open an email, a yellow bar at the top of the screen says "Internet Pictures Blocked"
I know its simple, and all you need to do is click the yellow bar, you read the message that says "To protect your privacy, pictures from the Internet are not automatically downloaded"
Bellow the message you click "download Internet pictures"
Easy, Simple, Almost hassle free, I know all that.
But not quiet Hassle free. and it had slowly became the thing that bugs me most about opening my mail.
Again I know Im probably missing something that is so simple most people don't even need to ask how to do it. But is there a way to make it download the full email including the images.
Iv'e had the x1 since it came out here in Britain, and maybe I should have asked earlier rather than, let it bug me every day. But I haven't because it felt like it was a setting i have not configured correctly. and i was just being stupid wasting peoples time with such a simple question.
But I put my hands in the air, I cant find it , I don't know how to do it. I give up. Can someone tell me what I'm not doing correct, and put me out of my misery lol
Thanks in advance for any help
one_mad_punk

That's a standard feature on most email clients these days.
It's there so that spammers can't hide your email address in an image request - basically the images generated by a script that confirms that your email address is valid.
When your email address is confirmed as valid its more valuable to sell on to spammers as a 'confirmed active' address.
You should only ever allow images to be downloaded from email that you are expectingand where you know the sender - therefore in any email the images will be blocked initially.
Full blown email clients may have a 'white list' for senders addresses that you will automatically allow images from, but not Pocket Outlook unfortunately.
Hope this helps,
FM

Is there a way to bypass that?
My x1 reads the email from 1 folder in my email account. spam, junk and items i don't require to check when out and about, are in other folders of the account and i check those when i get home.
Its just the emails that make it to this approved folder i check on the phone. and it would be good for the full email an images to be downloaded.
However i presume from what you are saying, that even tho i have taken precautions to filter and separate non important emails, that it is still in my best interest and for my own protection that the x1 does not download the images with the rest of the email. and that there is no actual way to change this setting
Thanks for your quick reply
one_mad_punk

I would like to download the images automatically, too.
No one with an idea how to fix that?

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Active sync keeps changing emails back to unread

I have an AT&T tilt. It seems like whenever I get an email and I check it on my Tilt, if I move that email from the inbox into its appropriate folder that later on I notice the email is marked as unread again.
If I leave it in the inbox this doesn't happen.
As an example, in the morning when I get up, I check all my email on my phone and then move them into the appropriate folder. But by the time I get to work and check my email on the computer I see that all the folders that I moved the emails too are bold and show that there is an unread message in them. When I check those folders I see the the unread emails are the ones I checked on my phone earlier in the morning and that I already read them.
This is probably something really simple, but it's annoying and I don't know how to fix it. I'd appreciate it if anyone could help me out. Thanks!
BTT
Anyone have any idea on how to fix this? Thanks!
Please? Anyone?
(Exchange) It's because in the AS settings you chose to have your desktop overide your device. This is popular because on older model ppc's with volatile memory if your device died you'd lose evrything when you resync'd via wireless sync with the device overiding the desktop.
(Hotmail, Yahoo, etc...) This also happens because the mail host overides the device. The only way to make the email stop is to perform the read on the host account site.
Thanks a lot for the explanation. That makes sense.

What app do you recommend to check emails?

I want to check my gmail account but i dont want to download the emails! Just check them... the diamond message app is horrible. Which one do you recommend? Thx
staskesi said:
I want to check my gmail account but i dont want to download the emails! Just check them... the diamond message app is horrible. Which one do you recommend? Thx
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You can check FlexMail (www.webis.net) - it have option to download only headers of the emails
staskesi said:
I want to check my gmail account but i dont want to download the emails! Just check them... the diamond message app is horrible. Which one do you recommend? Thx
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Go to "Start->Messaging->Menu (Right Soft Key)->Options"
Then tap on "Google Mail" account.
Then tap on "Download size settings"
Finally select "Message download limit=Headers only"
Look into the settings properly before tagging as "horrible" the windows mobile email client.
You do not need any other client.
And you do not need to open two different threads for the same reason:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=419077
Read this before posting: http://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=429
Cheers!!
mrfrank said:
Go to "Start->Messaging->Menu (Right Soft Key)->Options"
Then tap on "Google Mail" account.
Then tap on "Download size settings"
Finally select "Message download limit=Headers only"
Look into the settings properly before tagging as "horrible" the windows mobile email client.
You do not need any other client.
And you do not need to open two different threads for the same reason:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=419077
Read this before posting: http://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=429
Cheers!!
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i tried to see my emails and only appeard 2 and i have thousands, i opened one and i couldn¡t see even the pictures, thats why i marked it as horrible.
Thx.
staskesi said:
i tried to see my emails and only appeard 2 and i have thousands, i opened one and i couldn¡t see even the pictures, thats why i marked it as horrible.
Thx.
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Again, you do not check the settings:
1) Go to "Start->Messaging->Menu (Right Soft Key)->Options"
Then tap on "Google Mail" account.
Then tap on "Send/Receive Schedule"
Select "Download messages:All messages"
and you will download all of them, if you want to do this silly thing. Or you can choose "Today's messages, From the past 3 days, etc.."
2) To see the pictures after you download the body of an email, you need to tap on "Internet picture blocked" (good thing by default) and tap on "Download Interent Pictures".
What is so horrible about the above?
I concur.
Many spam emails use pictures with specific code to know when you have opened an email and get your IP address and do nasty things to you. not such a major problem as WM viruses are still fairly rare at the moment, but certainly best not to automatically download them.
Give the built in apps a good try, and make sure that it is set up correctly to do what you want. If in the end it does not do what you want (and remember that it will never do everything that gmail does through your PC's browser) then look around for another one. But what is the point in paying for third party apps with all the possible trouble they could cause when it is so much simpler to learn how to use things properly in the first place.
the built in app is pretty good as far as email clients go. Not all singing and dancing like flexmail (tried it, very good, but far more complex than it needs to be, IMO), but it does the basics well as long as it is set up correctly. and being that the majority of major email providers around the world are already in it's database, even that is not so hard now.
Although, it seems you did miss the download settings while setting up the account, so it defaulted to only emails from the last 3 days (which is the default setting)
And never let the words "But My nokia used to do this" ever pass your lips!
final note, GMail.....YAY, it's free. But dammit, why can't i delete ****....i don't want every email i've ever got for god's sake!! (although maybe that's just the mobile version!!)
thank you for your long answer. Ill set it up and try for a few days. I would never pay for a program, keygens exist! hehe. Thank you again.
BTW, is there an application which can show me all the headers of an email?
I haven't found one yet-
staskesi said:
I would never pay for a program, keygens exist! hehe. Thank you again.
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dude....not cool in this forum
There is a java gmail app which works great on WM6 devices, just go to gmail.com on your phone and you will get a download link.

Gmail and sent/reply messages

I've been trying to find a way to fix this...
Is there a way or a setting somewhere that stops the Tilt from downloading messages I send/reply or is that a setting a gmail. It is annoying when I reply to an email using the gmail web interface or with outlook on my PC, then my phone will download my mail as a new message. I don't really want to set up some sort of filter, since some times when I send an email, I will CC myself, but I am just annoyed by it downloading every single reply.
Uuuuuhhhhhhh o.k.
stop CC'ing yourself, just check your sent box... too simple or not complex enough a solution?
jiannichan said:
I've been trying to find a way to fix this...
Is there a way or a setting somewhere that stops the Tilt from downloading messages I send/reply or is that a setting a gmail. It is annoying when I reply to an email using the gmail web interface or with outlook on my PC, then my phone will download my mail as a new message. I don't really want to set up some sort of filter, since some times when I send an email, I will CC myself, but I am just annoyed by it downloading every single reply.
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Did you read the problem or not understand it? The problem is when I reply to emails, the Tilt will download it as a new message. Where did I state that I CC myself all the time? What does checking my sent messages have anything to do with what the Tilt is downloading?
little snippy...
Pretty sure you not only said it, but now you've highlighted the fact that you sometimes CC yourself on emails sent, so yes, you would receive a copy. You would check your sent box to view messages that you have sent rather than CC'ing yourself. Mighty snippy for someone asking for help. Are you using a threaded version of Gmail? that's the only reason I could think you would receive a copy of the conversation, aside from CC'ing yourself.
If you read it, it says SOMETIMES. My problem is EVERY email reply gets downloaded. The CCs aren't a problem and not something I am complaining about. I am complaining about all replies done by me being downloaded as a new email. My response to you would have been different if you actually replied like you read it what the problem was.
updated after you posted
Trying again, are you using a threaded style of Gmail or the true Gmail website?
Not really sure. I rarely ever use the gmail website unless I am at a different computer. Most of my email comes to my phone and PC, which I remote into during work and just use Outlook to respond if I can. I'll try to explain the problem better. I apologize, just having a hectic day at work.
When someone emails me, the Tilt will download the email.
I will reply back using the tilt, or Outlook on my PC, and every once in a while, the gmail web interface. NOT CCing myself.
Tilt then downloads again, my reply and puts it in my inbox.
The only time I CC myself, is when I send out a new email that I feel is important. I do this because I like to have a copy for myself, and I empty my sent box on a weekly basis.
Also, I just did a web search on this threaded gmail thing you were talking about. It appears that is a 'feature' in gmail and it can't be disabled. It puts my replys in a 'conversation' style so it thinks that my replies are new messages and just downloads them. I guess I just have to deal with it.
More questions
Does ONLY the tilt capture all replies or do they also show up on your box at home and is this independant of from where you reply (home box or tilt)? Gmail uses a conversation view that shows reply messages as a long conversation would appear in MMS/SMS. I can't imagine that this would cause the problem but may be another piece to this puzzle.
Don't worry about my comments, I'm a smart-ass. Pretty much everyone is here to help and there are many more smart-assier (and just plain smarter) than me. Just roll with the punches and enjoy the website.
I must type slowly
I use Gmail and reply from my tilt as well, but have not had a problem. But i don't use a web app, I have gmail as a separate account that I access just like standard push-mail. What way do you use gmail?
Same problem
When I used my tilt I was having the same problem. I would send an email from my tilt (from a push account I had set up on the phone) and would receive a copy of the sent mail as a new message. I had that phone for 2 years and used various roms and could never stop it from doing so. It was very annoying to say the least. Some light on this matter would be awesome.
If I can, I just use email from the phone, or outlook on my PC if there is a large attachment. It only does it on the Tilt. My outlook on the PC is only showing up the emails from other people, and not myself. I can see on the web interface my replies though if I log on.
I have it set up on the Tilt as an account as well, so I am not using the gmail interface thru the phone. Not sure how I have it setup or if it is a seperate email software. I just click on messages and added the email account. It doesn't matter where I reply from. I also have a Yahoo account set up and it doesn't do this.
Also, the phone info:
Duttys WM6.1 build 19700
radio 1.65.14.06
I had this problem once and I was because I forget to change the "[email protected]" that I used during the initial setup back to my actual e-mail address.
I just fixed the issue. I deleted the account from the phone and recreated a new one and set it up as IMAP. I think the issue at first was because I had it set up and let the phone download the settings for me and it configured it as POP. This time, I set up everything manually and tested it out and it appears to be fine now.

Help please? Nexus 1 Email troubles

Hello, I really need some help with some email problems here with my nexus 1 (att 3g vers).
It has NOT been rooted, and has android 2.2 installed (prefer to not root btw).
Anyway, the problem is in regard to the android EMAIL app (don't know it's name, but it's the icon of the envelope and yellow @ symbol in it).
I've set it up to handle my other email accounts (comcast and godaddy accounts) - not Gmail. Everything is setup finally and working fine...but for one problem...
once an email arrives, i get the notification...go to read it, BUT - then after reading it...it's then moved to the trash automatically (the trash in the email app that is, it's not removed from the server.
Driving me nuts - it's no longer in the inbox area of the email app, for each and every account). Each email just automatically disappears (goes to the trash) upon my reading it one time.
I can go to the trash folder and read, but this is ridiculous...shouldn't I be the one moving emails to the trash?
Can anyone suggest a fix here, or know of anything I can do to stop this?
I see no settings to change this...it's a serious bug.
Or...is there a better email app (one like this, as I do like the look and feel of this one built into android 2.2) that I should be using?
I downloaded K-9 email (but really hate it's look, feel and operation compared to this one).
Maybe there is something I'm not getting here though and need to change?
It's very strange that ea email would move to the trash upon 1st reading it.
thanks for any help here
also, i have tried searching this site for this problem with zero luck...
but i can't be the only one seeing this issue, right?
again: these accounts are my comcast and godaddy email accounts (not gmail, hotmail, etc).
thanks again
sorry man, I tried looking at my settings to see if theres anything I can suggest. Nada...
update to my Q:
Ok, doyeee
I think I know what's going on....
I was just setting comcast and godaddy accounts up and had the the email apps open on my PC at the same time while running tests.
When I did email tests, and having the PC email apps open for the same accounts...after they download to the PC is when they will go to the trash on the nexus email (not staying in INBOX on nexus when the PC email app has downloaded them).
This might be standard (I don't know as this is finally the first phone able to handle emails like this.
Hmm, i'd sure prefer it if all emails could remain in the inbox (or some other folder other than trash) as I can't hit "reply" once they're in the trash should I later want to reply to the same email with more info later on mobile.

[Q] User profiles, how seperate are they?

Well, my work finally told me to cancel my personal phone and go pick out whatever I want to replace the horrid iPhone 4 they gave me (*shudder* 8gb). I should be able to pick up my nexus 6 from telus tomorrow! I'm looking for a good way to seperate my work from personal and was wondering if user accounts would accomadate this. Some info...
I have a personal gmail as well my work uses gmail
I keep 2 separate calendars, although some items I put on both (haven't checked into if I can auto accept invites from one account to the other)
This is a small company. I have complete control over my phone (they don't restrict the apps/useage in any way)
Now to the detailed questions.. Of how separate user accounts are...
Will photos taken from each profile only be viewable from the profile that captured it?
Are text messages completely separate?
Are contact lists seperate ?
From what I have read, apps can be separate (I actually have work related apps I don't want to have to scroll past when looking for the tribez Lol)
If you know anything else about user accounts I would really appreciate the knowledge! All the articles I find basically just explain how to set them up and restrict access

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