Blocking picture

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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.

dogo
 
ARe they all pictures or pictures from the same sender/domain? Have you
checked your trusted sender list?

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After furious head scratching, dogo asked:

| 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.
|
| dogo
 
dogo said:
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.
Click to expand...


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?
 
Cheers for the info but I don't believe they are the answers, here is a copy
of a message

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>The Code Project Newsletter</TITLE>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html">
<STYLE> body, p, td { font-family: Verdana, Arial, san serif;
font-size:9pt; }
h2 {font-size: 13pt; font-weight:bold;}
h3 {font-size: 11pt; font-weight:bold;}
a {text-decoration:none;}
a:hover {text-decoration:underline;}
.desc { color:#333333; font-size:8pt;}
</STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

<TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=3 width="100%" bgColor=#ff9900 border=0>
<TR><TD><A href="http://www.codeproject.com/"><IMG height=60
src="http://www.codeproject.com/images/newsletter_header.gif?date=21/2/2005"
width=500 border=0></A>
</TD></TR></TABLE>

Now first off I don't mind the pictures in this one, but outlook used to
give me the option of right-hand clicking and choosing to download the
pictures. I no longer get that option.

I have no one in my safe user list...

any more ideas.. As I said I no longer get the option to choose to download
these pictures. outlook will just automatically download them
 
dogo said:
Cheers for the info but I don't believe they are the answers, here is
a copy of a message

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>The Code Project Newsletter</TITLE>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html">
<STYLE> body, p, td { font-family: Verdana, Arial, san serif;
font-size:9pt; }
h2 {font-size: 13pt; font-weight:bold;}
h3 {font-size: 11pt; font-weight:bold;}
a {text-decoration:none;}
a:hover {text-decoration:underline;}
.desc { color:#333333; font-size:8pt;}
</STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

<TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=3 width="100%" bgColor=#ff9900
border=0>
<TR><TD><A href="http://www.codeproject.com/"><IMG height=60
src="http://www.codeproject.com/images/newsletter_header.gif?date=21/2/2005"
width=500 border=0></A>
</TD></TR></TABLE>

Now first off I don't mind the pictures in this one, but outlook used
to give me the option of right-hand clicking and choosing to download
the pictures. I no longer get that option.

I have no one in my safe user list...

any more ideas.. As I said I no longer get the option to choose to
download these pictures. outlook will just automatically download them
Click to expand...



And the HTML code sample you provided is exactly what the option
*should* block if enabled: a linked image.

<A href="http://www.codeproject.com/">
Start of the <A> tag with the external link when the image gets clicked.

<IMG height=60
src="http://www.codeproject.com/images/newsletter_header.gif?date=21/2/2005"
width=500 border=0>
Which is the EXTERNAL image that must by yanked from the server.

</A>
Closing tag.

So you confirmed that the image that should get blocked was NOT an
inline MIME part within the body of the message but instead a link back
to some server from which the file must be retrieved. Since this image
is getting through and you say the blocking option is enabled (i.e., the
"Don't download pictures or other content automatically in HTML e-mail"
checkbox is cleared), did you check if the domain is listed in your
Trusted Sites security zone?

What do you have for the other settings noted below?

"Permit downloads in e-mail messages from senders and to recipients
defined in the Safe Senders and Safe Recipients Lists used by the Junk
E-mail filter"

"Permit downloads from Web sites in this security zone: Trusted Zone "
 
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