Hiya qubit, little did I suspect that this problem would prove so resistant to solution!!
You asked: “Hmm. Interesting. I assume you’re using Yahoo mail in the browser (right?), so the browser successfully copies the HTML and (possibly) the images as well. Oh! perhaps that’s the issue: Are the images in an email embedded or are they links? Perhaps LO just isn’t displaying a image linked by url…”
(By the way, qubit, you don’t need to restrict yourself to “comments”–you certainly should feel free to use the “answer” section, regardless of whether your response solves the problem or not.)
Yes, I’m using Yahoo mail in Firefox, and I find it interesting that you are clearly finding it hard to believe that I’m reproducing all images and graphics from the website in my email. But just to be emphatic–it’s not just the HTML, it’s not just links–every single feature of the webpage that I’ve copied is replicated in the email precisely as it appears in the original.
The reason I reproduce articles in my emails rather than provide links to those articles is that I have some lazy and/or incurious friends!!! A bare link is much less provocative than the article itself, so if the latter is right in front of them they are more likely to read it.
So qubit, what happens when YOU copy and paste images from a web page into Yahoo Mail in Firefox?