Changing your mind about "show remote content"

[slickrcbd]

I accidentally clicked on "show remote content" from Yahoo group's daily digest (yes, Neo sucks). It makes it almost impossible to reply to the group and snip content.

How do I tell Thunderbird NOT to show remote content for that message or any others now that I've said it is OK? I quit and restarted, but it still shows the remote content.

[tanstaafl]

Find the contact for that address in your address book, select properties, and uncheck "allow remote content".

[slickrcbd]

No effect, it's like it already downloaded the remote content, and now it's using cached files for this and any other messages from yahoo groups.
It's displaying stuff it previously suppressed.

Is there some way to clear out the cache for that without wiping all the messages? I'm afraid going to
options->network and disk space->clear now
would wipe the messages instead of the cache like in Firefox.

[morat]

You can remove the remote content policy in the error console.

* select message
* tools > error console
* copy and paste code
* evaluate

Code: Select all

top.opener.setMsgHdrPropertyAndReload("remoteContentPolicy", 0);

[slickrcbd]

That seems to have helped somewhat, I take it the "reload" part was part of the problem?

I had also deleted the original message in the hopes that subsequent messages would load without the extra external junk that does nothing but eat up memory.

In any case, thanks for the help.

[morat]

I take it the "reload" part was part of the problem?

The problem was the remoteContentPolicy property for that message was set to 2 for allow remote content in the mail summary file.

AFAIK, the show remote content button does not set the remoteContentPolicy property for subsequent messages.