Here’s a little Thunderbird tip. With the release of version 2, Mozilla turned off automatic image loading when displaying e-mails that contain HTML. When there are images blocked, there is a button you can click to load the images. There is also a link you can click that will tell Thunderbird to always load images for any message from that sender.
The way that latter option works is it checks your address book for the message sender, and if an option is selected in that address book entry, it will load images automatically. When you click the link to tell Thunderbird to always load images, it creates a new address book entry (if there isn’t already one) and checks the option to load images.
I started getting irritated, though, that my address book was getting cluttered with e-mail addresses of list servers and vendors, most of whom I’ll never send e-mail to, but do want to receive complete HTML messages from. Then I found a little trick in the Thunderbird documentation.
When Thunderbird checks to see if you have a sender in an address book, it checks all the address books. What that means is you can create a separate address book just for e-mails that may come in with HTML. As a result, you can have images automatically loaded on approved incoming e-mails without cluttering your primary address book.
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