thumbnails in email

[mark]

After upgrading to 1.6 from 1.3, the thumbnails in my email notification aren't showing. Originally this seemed to be because i didnt have the "parent_name" tag in my comment_template.

I have
<input type='hidden' name='parent_id' value='<IMAGE_ID>' />
<input type='hidden' name='parent_name' value='<IMAGE_NAME>' />

Now when i get my email, the thumbnail doesnt show...i've right clicked and checked properties on the spot where thumbnail should be and i get a link to my thumbnail (which is right). I then can take that link and paste it in my address bar and link "properly" to the thumbnail...once i've done this i can open my email and click on "show picture" and whala...the thumbnail appears....

I've had problems with re-generating my thumbnails...some work and some dont...could this whole thing be a permission issue?

what is the right permission?

[austriaka]

thumbnails folder should be 777 (perhaps 755 will do).
But this sounds not like a problem of permissions but a problem of your mail program. After loading the thumbnail into your cache, the image shows up in the mail.
Which one do you use? TheBat! for example which I use will never show up images from the web in a html mail

KArin

[mark]

hmm...yeah, that does make sense..its more of a email protection thing...im using gmail for these examples.

[Connie]

As Austriaka wrote already, it makes sense not to load images which have URLs in any email

as very often these images can be forged ...

so you could check your mail settings, allow images in emails just for checking short time, then close this again and relax!

[mark]

well, i still can't solve this problem. Even my RSS feeds wont show my thumbnail properly. The link to thumbnail is right and i can cut and paste it into the browser which displays the thumbnail file...then going back to RSS feed, the image pops up.

My thumbnails are rw-r-r. Could this be the problem?

[Dkozikowski]

well, i still can't solve this problem. Even my RSS feeds wont show my thumbnail properly. The link to thumbnail is right and i can cut and paste it into the browser which displays the thumbnail file...then going back to RSS feed, the image pops up.

My thumbnails are rw-r-r. Could this be the problem?

Your thumbnails show up fine in SAFARI and FIREFOX for MAC

[mark]

guess what it ended up being? Hotlinking...my host had Hotlinking disabled on my site....enabling it worked.......which does suck a little bit...if i wanted to stop hotlinking, i'd also stop my RSS feed....oh well...

Thanks!

[GeoS]

Stop protect thumbs and use thumbs in feeds - this should solve you problem (make a rule disabling protection for /thumbnails dir).