Dear Enrique,
Thank you for posting here.
I can understand you wonder whether it is possible to enable Automatic
Picture Download Settings feature in Outlook 2002.
I really appreciate you taking time to writing to us. However, I am afraid
it is not possible to implement such feature in Outlook 2002. The feature
is special for Outlook 2003. Let me explain further as below.
When a junk-mail sender distributes junk e-mail, he often doesn¡¯t know
whether he¡¯s sending messages to valid e-mail recipients. But with Outlook
2000/XP, if you were to open a junk e-mail ¡ª or even just read it in the
preview pane ¡ª the sender had the potential to know your address was real
and active because of something called a ¡°Web beacon.¡± Now Outlook 2003
blocks potential ¡°Web beacons¡± by default.
Here¡¯s how a ¡°Web beacon¡± works. When you receive an HTML-based e-mail
message, it can contain pictures, video, or other types of content other
than just text. Sometimes those pictures, videos, etc. come as attachments,
which actually reside in the message body. But other times this content is
located on an external Web server on the Internet rather than actually
being part of the email message. And it¡¯s in messages that contain
references to external content where trouble with ¡°Web beacons¡± can
begin.
Let¡¯s say that instead of referencing a picture or video, the sender
references a program on his Web server that is designed to catalog your
e-mail address as valid once you open the message. That¡¯s a ¡°Web
beacon.¡± And if the sender was a junk e-mailer, once he knows your address
is legit, it¡¯s open season on your account.
But Outlook 2003 has specially made it tougher for junk senders to use
¡°Web beacons¡± to retrieve your e-mail address. Now if you receive a
message with references to external content, Outlook 2003 will block the
download of that content and display the warning message. That is the
improvement in Outlook 2003 compared with previous version of Outlook.
More info here:
How to use the Automatic Picture Download Setting feature to determine how
Outlook 2003 blocks external HTML content
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=831608
I really appreciate your understanding regarding this. Thanks and have a
nice day!
Lee Li
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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www.microsoft.com/security
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