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I've been looking at various posts and wanted to put all the
information in one place to make it easier to find for others.
In Outlook 2003, the default setting is not to download pictures from a
server that isn't yours (well done MS!). The problem comes when you
have to reply or forward a message that has this blocked content as you
will get the following message:
"To complete this action, Outlook must download content from a server
other than your e-mail server. This could verify to the sender that
your e-mail address is valid and increase the amount of junk e-mail you
receive in the future."
I have seen two possible work-arrounds and one 'fix'
Workarounds:
1) Forward the mail as an attachment.
This is OK for forwarding, but has the problem that anyone who receives
the attachment, opens it and downloads pictures has just confirmed
*your* email address.
2) Convert the email to text before replying.
This came from an MS person, but didn't give any advice on how you
would actually do such a thing *before* downloading images. You would
expect that setting Outlook to display all incoming mail as text would
do the job, but Outlook is cleverer than that and will notice that the
mail is really HTML and you're back to square one
The 'fix':
This too came from an MS person - use Outlook 2007. There are other
email clients we could use that don't have this issue (probably), but
I'm tied into to Outlook at work.
If anyone has found other workarounds or solutions, I'm sure many of us
would be interested to hear about them...
If MS would be so kind as to offer a patch now that Office 2007 is
essentially finished, that would also be cool (and fit in with their
desire to reduce spam).
information in one place to make it easier to find for others.
In Outlook 2003, the default setting is not to download pictures from a
server that isn't yours (well done MS!). The problem comes when you
have to reply or forward a message that has this blocked content as you
will get the following message:
"To complete this action, Outlook must download content from a server
other than your e-mail server. This could verify to the sender that
your e-mail address is valid and increase the amount of junk e-mail you
receive in the future."
I have seen two possible work-arrounds and one 'fix'
Workarounds:
1) Forward the mail as an attachment.
This is OK for forwarding, but has the problem that anyone who receives
the attachment, opens it and downloads pictures has just confirmed
*your* email address.
2) Convert the email to text before replying.
This came from an MS person, but didn't give any advice on how you
would actually do such a thing *before* downloading images. You would
expect that setting Outlook to display all incoming mail as text would
do the job, but Outlook is cleverer than that and will notice that the
mail is really HTML and you're back to square one
The 'fix':
This too came from an MS person - use Outlook 2007. There are other
email clients we could use that don't have this issue (probably), but
I'm tied into to Outlook at work.
If anyone has found other workarounds or solutions, I'm sure many of us
would be interested to hear about them...
If MS would be so kind as to offer a patch now that Office 2007 is
essentially finished, that would also be cool (and fit in with their
desire to reduce spam).