When you make a forum post and it emails all the students, the images in the forum post display as broken images. The images can only be viewed if the user is logged into moodle. I've read other posts on the moodle forums where the pros and cons of this functionality are discussed but there's no work around or solution.
What I would like to know is, is there a way to force the images to display in the email without the user being logged in? Change settings, hack something in the code, file permissions in moodle data etc.? It would be nice to know if it is at all possible even if it isn't good practice.