Tip: Viewing Inline Email Images on Your Blackberry

Posted on December 10, 2007

I’m using a Blackberry against a Lotus Notes back-end. When I receive an email message with an image pasted inline (vs. as an attachment), I can’t view the image; it’s represented as “<< image >>”. I’m not sure why the Blackberry or the Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) don’t present the image as a viewable attachment, but there is a workaround. If you forward the email to your web-based email account, e.g. Yahoo or Gmail and then browse there from the Blackberry, the image(s) will either be viewable directly within the message as HTML or will show up as a viewable attachment. As a quicker alternative, some of the big email services have an applet that you can run right on your Blackberry (I downloaded Google’s Gmail application for Blackberry directly from my device at http://gmail.com/app). With this approach, I simply forward the email to my Gmail account and view it (images and all) using the Gmail app.

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  1. Josh December 13, 2007 8:21 pm

    9 out of 10 times when I get one of those pasted images, it is an excel chart pasted into email.
    I have trained the people I work with regularly not to directly paste charts, but to paste special ,
    and then choose the rich text or html options. You can view it on a BB,
    the content in the chart can be copied and pasted on the BB or within Notes, etc.
    You get a usable email in all aspects instead of a dead image.

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