Updates should NOT change security settings without consent!

[Guest]

For no apparent reason, Office decided to stop linking URLs from plain text
email messages. The only change to my system from when this worked is some
windows updates but nothing related to this behavior.

GRIPE: If you change security policy in an update, the change should require
user concent!

PROBLEM: URLs in plain text emails stopped linking to web sites. Outlook
directed me to the the Junk Email option "Don't turn on links in messages
that might connect to unsafe or fraudulent sites..." I've always had that
setting checked, but the meaning seems to have changed. The link is in a
PLAIN TEXT message. So, who decides that this URL is Unsafe or Fradulent?

Is there a way I can enable plain text URL links but disable malformed and
rich text URLs? Is there a way I can say, Allow links to this server?

If I wrote software that behaved like this, My bug tracking server would be
overloaded. Is this why Microsoft does not have a bug reporting tool?

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[Roady [MVP]]

And the suggestion would be...? I assume you are talking about Outlook 2003?
What build number? What update are you refering to?

Anti-phising has been in Outlook since Service Pack 2 and the change has
been made with your concent; read the release notes?
Allowing links in mails can be done based on the safe lists.

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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in message For no apparent reason, Office decided to stop linking URLs from plain text
email messages. The only change to my system from when this worked is some
windows updates but nothing related to this behavior.

GRIPE: If you change security policy in an update, the change should require
user concent!

PROBLEM: URLs in plain text emails stopped linking to web sites. Outlook
directed me to the the Junk Email option "Don't turn on links in messages
that might connect to unsafe or fraudulent sites..." I've always had that
setting checked, but the meaning seems to have changed. The link is in a
PLAIN TEXT message. So, who decides that this URL is Unsafe or Fradulent?

Is there a way I can enable plain text URL links but disable malformed and
rich text URLs? Is there a way I can say, Allow links to this server?

If I wrote software that behaved like this, My bug tracking server would be
overloaded. Is this why Microsoft does not have a bug reporting tool?