Annoying privacy "feature"

[Clyde Soles]

Recently upgraded to Entourage 2004. One annoying new feature that appears
to be undocumented is a privacy function that reads "To protect your
privacy, some pictures in this message were not downloaded." How can I turn
this nuisance off? There doesn't appear to be a setting in Preferences.

 

[Barry Wainwright]

Recently upgraded to Entourage 2004. One annoying new feature that appears
to be undocumented is a privacy function that reads "To protect your
privacy, some pictures in this message were not downloaded." How can I turn
this nuisance off? There doesn't appear to be a setting in Preferences.

A new security feature in Entourage 2004 blocks the display of pictures (and
other linked mail content) hosted on remote sites. Images can be loaded for
individual messages by clicking on the ŒDownload Pictures¹ link in the
yellow message status bar. This was a huge feature request from users that
found the all embracing ŒAll Pictures¹ or ŒNo Pictures¹ too limiting.

There is a setting in the security section of the preferences to
automatically download pictures from recipients who are in your address
book. That should suffice for most users. If you really want to download all
images from all sources, you can put ".com", ".net", ".org" etc to your list
of safe domains in the Junk Mail Protection dialog. Then, images from all
untrustworthy sources will be downloaded.

 

[Chris Ridd]

Recently upgraded to Entourage 2004. One annoying new feature that appears
to be undocumented is a privacy function that reads "To protect your
privacy, some pictures in this message were not downloaded." How can I turn
this nuisance off? There doesn't appear to be a setting in Preferences.

See Preferences>Security for some ways to control this security feature.

Personally I find it useful, because a) I get very few HTML messages, and b)
I don't want senders to spot when I read one of their messages containing a
web bug. Your mileage may vary!

Cheers,

Chris

 

[Information]

It seems that this only works if you have Junk Mail Protection enabled. I
use an outside Junk Mail program (SpamSieve) that filters incoming mail (POP
& IMAP). Not that I want to, but rather to help clarify the situation, it
appears that this preference is somehow working (download pictures enabled)
even if the protection is disabled.

Maybe the question should be how to control the download independently of
the Junk Mail settings? I think the answer is it's impossible to do so. Do
you agree?

The picture download option I use is to only accept from known users (in the
contacts database). Even seeing HTML is somewhat of a question for me. So I
use that option in Preferences sometimes. And I do get a lot of HTML from my
vendors.

Henry

 

[Barry Wainwright]

So, what you are saying is that you would like to see an option in the rules
to 'download pictures'? That way you could get the pictures for specific
mail, without having to enable wide open access?

Please shout up if that's what you want - the more people that ask for this
the more likely it is to be implemented...