u/RevRagnarok

▲ 1 r/GMail

Old images broken

So I'm going thru my inbox (Firefox on Windows), and have some emails from around 2013. They say things like "here's a cute pic of the kiddo!" and there are no images.

If I "show original" I can see that they were sent with Apple products (the MIME multipart starts with Apple-Mail) and have the base64 attached images still there, but the GMail front-end just isn't rendering them (shown below). It knows to filter it out of the view...

If I download the original, I can run the file thru some python and get the image with no warnings about the encoding. But why can't GMail render the images any more?

Is anybody else having this issue?

Example:

Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=Apple-Mail-2C120298-0580-447E-B857-EE575FEFCCBC
Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0)
X-Mailer: iPad Mail (10B329)

--Apple-Mail-2C120298-0580-447E-B857-EE575FEFCCBC
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Fun at the Irish Festival. 


--Apple-Mail-2C120298-0580-447E-B857-EE575FEFCCBC
Content-Type: image/jpeg; name=photo.JPG
Content-Disposition: inline; filename=photo.JPG
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64


--Apple-Mail-2C120298-0580-447E-B857-EE575FEFCCBC
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit


(Sister's name was here)

--Apple-Mail-2C120298-0580-447E-B857-EE575FEFCCBC--
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u/RevRagnarok — 13 days ago