How prevent pictures in preview pane

[Cirene]

Using latest version of Outlook.

Sometimes spam gets into my normal inbox. As I try to delete it sometimes
the picture in the email will download quickly and display in my preview
pane. How can I prevent this? I want to avoid anyone in my family seeing
vulgar items.

Thanks.

 

[Prabodh Pavaskar]

The easiest way to do that is , block that sender's email address.
So that you will not receive any mails from that sender.

It will be easy for me to give answer if you tell me exactly what you want.
1) you do not want to receive such mails.
2) do not want to open such mails when your family members are around
3) want to delete it permanently.

All 3 options can be done by setting rules. If you use outlook 2003, then
you will find it on top toolbar buttons.
Prabodh Pavaskar

 

[Prabodh Pavaskar]

just check where the rules butten is located in outlook 2007.
since i am using previous version.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

You can turn off the preview pane until you have reviewed new messages to
ensure that they are not spam.

Also, you may want to consider using a good anti-spam solution - my personal
preference is SpamBayes, free and open source available from
SourceForge.net.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, Cirene asked:

| Using latest version of Outlook.
|
| Sometimes spam gets into my normal inbox. As I try to delete it
| sometimes the picture in the email will download quickly and display
| in my preview pane. How can I prevent this? I want to avoid anyone
| in my family seeing vulgar items.
|
| Thanks.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Oh, and blocking the sender is useless since they change addresses with each
email sent.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, Cirene asked:

| Using latest version of Outlook.
|
| Sometimes spam gets into my normal inbox. As I try to delete it
| sometimes the picture in the email will download quickly and display
| in my preview pane. How can I prevent this? I want to avoid anyone
| in my family seeing vulgar items.
|
| Thanks.

 

[Cirene]

It comes from random spam people.

The easiest way to do that is , block that sender's email address.
So that you will not receive any mails from that sender.

It will be easy for me to give answer if you tell me exactly what you
want.
1) you do not want to receive such mails.
2) do not want to open such mails when your family members are around
3) want to delete it permanently.

All 3 options can be done by setting rules. If you use outlook 2003, then
you will find it on top toolbar buttons.
Prabodh Pavaskar

 

[VanguardLH]

Using latest version of Outlook.

Sometimes spam gets into my normal inbox. As I try to delete it sometimes
the picture in the email will download quickly and display in my preview
pane. How can I prevent this? I want to avoid anyone in my family seeing
vulgar items.

Thanks.

And WHAT is the version of Outlook that you happen to use? Different
versions exist because feature sets are different.

For Outlook 2003 & 2007, you can enable the security option to block
externally linked content (images from some file server). That will
eliminate web beacons. In Outlook 2002, there is no equivalent feature.
You can disable the Preview pane and then enable Auto-Preview which will
show the first few lines of an e-mail but only as plain text. Then you
have an idea of which e-mails you want to look at (by double-clicking to
open them) and not touch the ones you want to summarily delete.

If the image is not linked but embedded into the e-mail (whether as an
attachment or inline), you have already expended the time to download
it. The image is *in* the e-mail and once you download the message then
the image is already there so seeing it doesn't incur any further
bandwidth consumption or time to wait for the image to show up. Also,
because it is embedded, it cannot be used as a web beacon.

So what you do to block or thwart externally linked images depends on
WHICH version of Outlook that you use but did not identify.