Block <img src="..."> in Outlook 2003

[Guest]

I use the reading pane in Outlook 2003 to preview messages and it seems that
my regular emails have the external content blocked, but both the spam that
outlook catches and doesn't catch often still display their images. I'm
pretty sure that these are also using external images; the most recent
message uses <img src="..."> tags. Is there any way to disable this content
as well, since I understand this is one way that a valid email is verified?
If it helps, I can include the source code of this most recent message.

Thanks,
George

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

If you're seeing unblocked external content, check your Safe Senders and Safe Recipients lists -- messages from/to those people will not have external content blocked. Your own address should not be on the Safe Recipients list.

Images embedded in messages will display regardless, because they are not external content. As such, they can't operate as "web bugs" to verify email addresses.

 

[Guest]

Hi Sue,
My Safe Recipients list is empty and the junk mail i'm referring to is not
from any address or domain that I've added to the Safe Senders list.

Again, I'm pretty sure the images are not embedded since the source of the
image is a website (in the case of this most recent junk, the html source has
the tag: {img
SRC="cidart1.01080907.00050605@[email protected]" border="0"
usemap="#omxgzg"} - in angled brackets instead of braces - so it looks to
come from the site southtrust.com, of which i've never heard of; again, I can
include more of the source if that helps)

George

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

That's an embedded image. If it were an external image the src would point to something liek http://somesite.com/someimage.gif.