Outlook SPAM-friendly?

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nutso fasst

Outlook won't let me look at raw content of received e-mail, only the
header. So, when an e-mail that looks from the header like it might be legit
is filtered into my 'deleted' folder, how can I double-check content before
deletion?

If it is plain text, not a problem, I can view it. But if it is HTML it
might have embedded images. I don't want to view it and have Outlook reach
out to get the image file(s), thus informing the sender that the message has
been read.

I figured that if I saved the message as plain text, Outlook would not reach
out for any images. That does not appear to be the case. When I saved the
message my firewall showed an outgoing hit on port 80 at an address at
Hurricane Electric in Fremont, CA, a reputedly spam-friendly ISP. A few
seconds later I was hit with a flurry of attempted hits on port 80 on my
system, even though there is no web server there.

Was this an attempt to contact a trojan SPAM forwarder? I can't tell, but
both the SPAM e-mail and the incoming hits on port 80 were from addresses in
the Netherlands.

Anyway, I think it is strange that Outlook has no way to view raw e-mail
content, and even stranger that it would reach out for an image file
unnecessarily.

nf
 
What version of Outlook are you using? Outlook 2003 blocks images by default
and has a built-in spamfilter. For other versions you can use spamfilters
like mailwasher but I don't know whether it blocks images.

For more info to convert HTML messages to Rich Text or Plain Text;
http://www.slipstick.com/dev/code/zaphtml.htm

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Thanks for the info, Roady.

I have Outlook 2000. I've added a filter ('Rules') for 'src="http:' and
'src=http:' in the message body, moving such messages into a special folder.
Maybe that'll catch those sneaky ones.

nf
 
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