How to stop Outlook going to an external server when rendering HTML emails?

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Nigel A

Hi,

Most of the spam I get is in HTML format. The emails
include graphics that are not attachments - they are
references to the spammer's web site where the graphics
are downloaded from by Outlook when rendering the email.
The HTML tags also send a long ASCII string to the site
which probably contains my email address encoded. What
this amounts to is that when I use Outlook simply to view
an HTML email, a spammer knows what my email address is,
when I have viewed their email and what my IP address is.
Not good.

What I want to find out is how I can prevent Outlook from
accessing external web sites to render HTML emails. I
can't find anything in Tool/Options or the Knowledgebase.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Nigel
 

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