I receive emails from people that aren't the most trustworthy or have the
best net etiquette. Some of them are my friends though, so I want to continue
to receive email from them. I am wondering if I can disable html in emails
received from their addresses. Specifically, I am looking for a way to stop
web beacons and email tracking stuff from individual senders.

You have not indicated an Outlook version. Outlook 2003/2007 does not
download remote content by defautl. In Outlook 2007, this is controlled in
the Trust Center - Tools | Trust Center | Automatic Download
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ou...710191033.aspx


"F.I." <F.I.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I receive emails from people that aren't the most trustworthy or have the
> best net etiquette. Some of them are my friends though, so I want to
> continue
> to receive email from them. I am wondering if I can disable html in emails
> received from their addresses. Specifically, I am looking for a way to
> stop
> web beacons and email tracking stuff from individual senders.

I am using Outlook 2007.

Trust Center seems to be an all or nothing affair. I want to exclude a few
people from sending HTML enabled emails, not allow a few to send HTML emails.
In other words, I want HTML emails enabled by default (which I have done) but
want to disable HTML for some senders. I have tried doing this via a rule,
but did not make it far.

"William Lefkovics [MVP]" wrote:

> You have not indicated an Outlook version. Outlook 2003/2007 does not
> download remote content by defautl. In Outlook 2007, this is controlled in
> the Trust Center - Tools | Trust Center | Automatic Download
> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ou...710191033.aspx
>
>
> "F.I." <F.I.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3D7208E5-1C51-4AA7-B1F4-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I receive emails from people that aren't the most trustworthy or have the
> > best net etiquette. Some of them are my friends though, so I want to
> > continue
> > to receive email from them. I am wondering if I can disable html in emails
> > received from their addresses. Specifically, I am looking for a way to
> > stop
> > web beacons and email tracking stuff from individual senders.
>
>

Converting messages to Plain Text isn't going to help you with that. As
William indicated; by default all automatic download of web content is
disabled. Doesn't matter if these messages are Plain Text, HTML or Rich
Text.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more

http://www.msoutlook.info/
Real World Questions, Real World Answers

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"F.I." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I am using Outlook 2007.
>
> Trust Center seems to be an all or nothing affair. I want to exclude a few
> people from sending HTML enabled emails, not allow a few to send HTML
> emails.
> In other words, I want HTML emails enabled by default (which I have done)
> but
> want to disable HTML for some senders. I have tried doing this via a rule,
> but did not make it far.
>
> "William Lefkovics [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> You have not indicated an Outlook version. Outlook 2003/2007 does not
>> download remote content by defautl. In Outlook 2007, this is controlled
>> in
>> the Trust Center - Tools | Trust Center | Automatic Download
>> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ou...710191033.aspx
>>
>>
>> "F.I." <F.I.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:3D7208E5-1C51-4AA7-B1F4-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >I receive emails from people that aren't the most trustworthy or have
>> >the
>> > best net etiquette. Some of them are my friends though, so I want to
>> > continue
>> > to receive email from them. I am wondering if I can disable html in
>> > emails
>> > received from their addresses. Specifically, I am looking for a way to
>> > stop
>> > web beacons and email tracking stuff from individual senders.
>>
>>

Is there some workaround I might implement to get the results indicated?
Still receive emails from a single person, but don't let any beacons (etc)
through?

And why is it that you say that plain text won't help? I am not entirely
familiar with the issue, but I was under the impression that these web beacon
services required the email recipient to have HTML enabled.

Thanks for replies so far.

"Roady [MVP]" wrote:

> Converting messages to Plain Text isn't going to help you with that. As
> William indicated; by default all automatic download of web content is
> disabled. Doesn't matter if these messages are Plain Text, HTML or Rich
> Text.
>
> --
> Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
> Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
> http://www.howto-outlook.com/
> Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more
>
> http://www.msoutlook.info/
> Real World Questions, Real World Answers
>
> -----
>
> "F.I." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news60080CC-CD98-4BB4-ABB0-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I am using Outlook 2007.
> >
> > Trust Center seems to be an all or nothing affair. I want to exclude a few
> > people from sending HTML enabled emails, not allow a few to send HTML
> > emails.
> > In other words, I want HTML emails enabled by default (which I have done)
> > but
> > want to disable HTML for some senders. I have tried doing this via a rule,
> > but did not make it far.
> >
> > "William Lefkovics [MVP]" wrote:
> >
> >> You have not indicated an Outlook version. Outlook 2003/2007 does not
> >> download remote content by defautl. In Outlook 2007, this is controlled
> >> in
> >> the Trust Center - Tools | Trust Center | Automatic Download
> >> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ou...710191033.aspx
> >>
> >>
> >> "F.I." <F.I.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:3D7208E5-1C51-4AA7-B1F4-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> >I receive emails from people that aren't the most trustworthy or have
> >> >the
> >> > best net etiquette. Some of them are my friends though, so I want to
> >> > continue
> >> > to receive email from them. I am wondering if I can disable html in
> >> > emails
> >> > received from their addresses. Specifically, I am looking for a way to
> >> > stop
> >> > web beacons and email tracking stuff from individual senders.
> >>
> >>