Finally, I've tracked it down and have a work-around!
The problem comes from the fact that I also have evolution-rss
installed. Something in there, possibly due to gtkhtml / webkit
rendering, stops Evolution from sending emails with inline images or
embedded images. Removing this package and com
This seems to have something to do with Compiz & Fullscreen requests. I
created a brand new user and it did the same thing. However I tested at
home (on a much bigger screen, dual head Nvidia set-up for video
playback) and couldn't reproduce.
Testing again (on new profile) and when changing to m
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: evolution
Using Evolution 2.28.0-0ubuntu4 in Karmic on 16/10/9
Steps to reproduce:
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Compose a new email, make sure the type is set to HTML. In the body type:
"Hello
Goodbye"
On the blank line go to Insert and Images and select
This seems to be a regression related to Ubuntu. I've just tried
OpenSuse 11.2 alpha (milestone 8) which has Evolution 2.28 in it and
this bug is not present. Composing a message with an image in works as
expected.
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inline images do not go out when sending emails in evolution
https://bugs.lau
I've narrowed it down a bit further. If you compose a message and save
it as draft, then go into the draft folder and view the source of it,
you'll see the image is encoded properly and attached as a multi-part
email. However once the email goes from draft to Outbox that attached
image is removed
Has affected me since 10.10 (32-bit) using Jabber and is very annoying.
Still present in empathy 2.32.1 and telepathy-gabble 0.10.
Only ugly work-around is to re-install empathy, empathy-common and
telepathy-gabble from Lucid (2.30.3 and 0.8.12 respectively) and then
set them to "hold" using 'dpkg
