Re: HTML mails never show pictures

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From: incumbent (incumbent_at_gmail.com)
Date: 08/15/04 

Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:35:33 -0400

nick@mardleybury.com wrote:

> Once again (I have posted this before but never had an answer from
> anyone who has any actual involvement with Microsoft), here are my
> thoughts on this MOST ANNOYING flaw in Entourage - and judging by
> comments I have had from others and seen in messages posted here, I am
> not alone in this feeling:
>
> This may be a security measure, but surely it should be in the user's
> control to decide whether the security benefit in their case outweighs
> the hassle and time wasted in having to click on the tiny link in
> every HTML message when you want to see the images? It really is rather
> anti-user-friendly and dis-empowering to totally take away the user's
> choice in this matter.

It is a security measure.

If you have someone in your addressbook, the images will load. In fact,
Entourage tells you that in the top right-hand corner.

I don't see what the problem is.

> 3. There should be a way of adding HTML email sender's addresses to a
> different list than the contacts database. I REALLY don't want my
> contact database to be filled up with email addresses that I will NEVER
> want to use from a new mail message. And adding the domain to the
> exclusion list seems to be a real sledgehammer to crack a nut approach.

But they are a contact.

> Personally I receive many HTML messages every day, from a Charles
> Schwab update on my stocks through newsletters from PC/Mac magazines,

Me too. Though I abhor HTML email and just get them in text format.

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