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Old 27 Dec 2018, 08:58 PM   #2
JeremyNicoll
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When you say the email came in the form of an image and a link, do you know this because you've examined the 'raw' contents of the email, or just because of what you saw it represented as in the FM app?

The image data might be embedded in the email, or might be being fetched from elsewhere. The link migt be a http href to somewhere else or it might be a picture of a link that acts when you click it, or the whole image & link could conceivably be in a PDF file that's been rendered by the browser/app.

It's common for email clients and those webmail systems that are reasonably configurable to allow you to tell them not to fetch anything (CSS, images etc) from elsewhere, because sometimes the links are unqiue to each recipient and by fetching such a link you inform the server that YOU did get the email and responded to it.

I've never used gmail so I don't know if it offers that level of control, nor - if it does - whether you've got it configured not to fetch remote files. If it does, and you have, then that implies that the image data is actually in the email, but it could still be in a pdf (or I suppose some other format) not obviously an image.

I think you need to tell us precisely what the email contains, and also look at the config options in each of the apps/browsers/webmail systems you're using.
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