Re: Blocking picture

From: Vanguard (use_ReplyTo_at_domain.invalid)
Date: 02/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:42:22 -0600

"dogo" <dogo_daz@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:cvgf0e$goh$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
> Hi,
> Using outlook 2003 windows xp Prof with SP2.
>
> Outlook has taken to downloading the picture contained in spam email,
> I cant seem to stop it! I have gone to Tools/Options/Security/Change
> Automatic Download Setting and ensured that the don't download
> pictures or other content automatically in HTML email is ticked.. but
> outlook keeps downloading the pictures any ideas.

Only *linked* images will get blocked. Those are images whose source is
off on some server somewhere and your e-mail client has to yank it to
show it when rendering an HTML-formatted message. Embedded or inline
images are not external to the message. They are part of the message.
Linked images make the size of the e-mail smaller so the sender can spew
out more copies in less time. Smaller also means the message is less
likely to exceed the message size quota imposed by most e-mail
providers. Including the image makes the message larger, takes longer
to transmit, and could be too large to be accepted by the recipient's
mailbox quotas.

The image block feature does not block all images. It just blocks
linked images. So, no, Outlook is not downloading the pictures. They
are already part of the e-mail that you downloaded. If you don't want
to see any graphics, read e-mail in plain-text format rather than allow
it to be rendered using HTML code. If you don't want to lose the
HTML-formatting but still want to get rid of the images, use 3rd party
software, like SpamPal whose HTML-Modify plug-in can also block linked
images or you can configure it to block all images (actually it just
renames the HTML tag so it isn't a valid tag so you could still see the
definition of the HTML tag).

How to use the Automatic Picture Download Setting feature to determine
how Outlook 2003 blocks external HTML content
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=831608

Outlook 2003's own help didn't describe this feature? 

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