Outlook SPAM-friendly?

[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

 

[Roady]

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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[nutso fasst]

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