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| Thank you, Malke, for you informative reply. It did not, however, address
my
| problem. I am looking for help right now, not an education. I have plenty
to
| keep me busy learning all the new stuff in XP and I am aware of some of
the
| things you mentioned and I will study the others when I have the
opportunity.
|
| Meanwhile, I need help with the current problem , which is why I logged on
| to the group. Does anyone have information about my issue and how to
resolve
| it?
|
| Thank you,
|
| Steven
|
| "Malke" wrote:
|
| > csblue wrote:
| >
| > > I have just updated from win98se to a new computer with winXP. I use
| > > Outlook Express for my mail. When I forward an email message to
| > > someone else that has pictures inserted into it (that I can view fine
| > > in my emails) they do not receive the email with the pictures
| > > inserted, but rather as attachments. The email message body only shows
| > > little boxes with red Xs in them. I never had this problem with OE
| > > before. Any suggestions?
| > >
| > > Thank you,
| > >
| > > Steven
| >
| > There have been many security changes in Outlook Express. Since you have
| > a new computer, it includes XP Service Pack 2. Here is some information
| > from Microsoft about the changes in OE in XPSP2:
| >
| > Outlook Express now has picture handling facilities similar to Outlook
| > 2003. This prevents senders of spam e-mail from determining whether a
| > recipient opens a message. It does this by preventing the automatic
| > display of pictures from Internet servers. The user is presented with
| > placeholders and the Information Bar gives the user the option to
| > display the picture.
| >
| > [Pictures and images embedded in HTML e-mail messages can be adapted to
| > secretly send a message back to the sender. These are often referred to
| > as Web beacons. Spammers rely on information returned by these images
| > to confirm active e-mail addresses. Some spam messages contain Web
| > beacon images so small that they are invisible to the human eye-but not
| > to Outlook Express.
| >
| > An improved defense against Web beacons is to stop pictures from
| > downloading until you've had a chance to review the message. Outlook
| > Express in Windows XP SP2 will now block images automatically in
| > messages from people who are not in your address book. This goes a long
| > way in preventing the verification of your e-mail address for spammers.
| > It makes your e-mail name less useful to spammers and may result in
| > your getting less spam over time.
| >
| > This feature also minimizes a common annoyance for those using dial-up
| > network connections. In earlier versions of Outlook Express, if you
| > read an HTML e-mail message with a picture embedded in it, Outlook
| > Express would automatically try to connect to the Internet to retrieve
| > any reference images. With image blocking in Outlook Express, this will
| > no longer happen -
| >
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/ieoeoverview.mspx
| >
| > Plain text mode is now the default setting with Outlook Express in
| > Windows XP Service Pack 2. In plain text mode, Outlook Express uses the
| > rich edit control rather than the MSHTML control. This avoids some
| > security issues that result from the use of MSHTML by using the rich
| > edit control. You can reduce the attack surface by operating in Plain
| > Text Mode.
| >
| > The following Outlook Express features are not available when running in
| > plain text mode:
| > - Changing text size
| > - Full text searching through the body of a mail message
| >
| > Source:
| >
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2email.mspx
| >
| > In addition, here is the best site to learn about Outlook Express:
| >
| >
http://www.insideoe.com
| >
| > Malke
| > --
| > Elephant Boy Computers
| >
www.elephantboycomputers.com
| > "Don't Panic!"
| > MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
| >
