Not Able to Browse Images from your Yahoo! E-Mail Account? Print

SYMTOMS

Not able to view images from Exabytes Newsletter from your Yahoo! Mail.

 

CAUSE

Skytomato's Newsletter images which are Web-Based graphics(images) that will downloaded to your computer when you open the message. Using Yahoo! Email you are preventing them from being downloaded.

 

WORKAROUND

Step 1:

 

When you've enabled image blocking and you open an email containing Web-based images, a message appears above the email informing you that Yahoo! Mail has blocked images. To see the blocked images, click the Show Images link. The images display in that email only. All other Web-based images in other emails continue to be blocked.

 

Step 2:

 

1. In the upper-right comer of your Yahoo! Mail page, click on the Options link, then select Mail Options from the menu.
   
   The Mail Options page opens.
2. Under the Spam column, click the Spam Protection link.
   Tip: The first time you open Spam Protection, Yahoo! Mail takes you through a series of steps to set up your spam options. Afterwards, the Spam Protection page shows your initial setup options. The following steps describe this page and how to change your options.
3. In the Image Blocking section of the Spam Protection page, selct one of the options:
   
   • Always show images, except in Spam folder - Yahoo! Mail blocks Web-based images when you open a message in the Spam folder and allows all other images to be downloaded when you open a message in any other folder.
   • Show images only from my contacts and certified senders -Mail downloads images when you open a message from someone on your address book or from certified sender and blocks Web-based images from other senders.
   • Initially block all images - Mail blocks all Web-based images when you open a message from any sender, including any of your contacts. This is the default setting.
4. Click the Save Changes button to save your images blocking setting.