inline images overriding picture download settings...

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Tim Mackey

hi
outlook 2003.
i have my download picture settings set to:

Don't download automatically: ticked
Permit from safe list... : not ticked
Permit from trusted zone: not ticked

and yet i still get emails that contain inline / embedded images (they don't show up as attachments) which appear in the email. how come these images slip through my settings, and how can i prevent it happening without resorting to reading all emails in plain text?

thanks
tim.



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Embedded/inline items are not downloaded from external sources and therefore
are not affected by those. They're part of the message like any other
attachment would be.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



hi
outlook 2003.
i have my download picture settings set to:

Don't download automatically: ticked
Permit from safe list... : not ticked
Permit from trusted zone: not ticked

and yet i still get emails that contain inline / embedded images (they don't
show up as attachments) which appear in the email. how come these images
slip through my settings, and how can i prevent it happening without
resorting to reading all emails in plain text?

thanks
tim.



\\ email: tim at mackey dot ie //
\\ blog: http://tim.mackey.ie //
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hi Sue,
many thanks for your helpful reply.
it hasn't happened yet but my concern is that someone could embed indecent
images into a mail and it might not be picked up by my junk mail. is there
any option i don't know about or a plugin that overcomes this scenario.
i.e. outlook basically gives us an all or nothing approach to inline images.
read everything as plain text, or risk seeing something you would rather
not. if there is no solution to it, i hope the next version of outlook
gives a more fine-grained control over trusted and untrusted content.

i don't think using IE security zones are the answer because outlook says
that changing the zones affects IE, and if the option to block images from
untrusted 'sites' was there, nobody would want that to apply to the Internet
anyway, just to block unwanted inline images in emails. if you choose to go
to a web site, it presents some indication of trust for the content on that
site. emails and the web are based on very different paradigms and i think
it would be too simplistic to apply the same security model.

i would appreciate your thoughts on this as an outlook expert.
thank you
tim
 
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