[pchelpers] Re: Problem with pictures in email

Hi Scott,

Thank you very much for the tip. I did exactly what you asked me to
do. It does not work. Just to be sure, I shut the computer off and
gave it a cold start up. The problem persists. The images still do not
download.

Would you have any more suggestions? Please?

Inge


On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Scott McNay <wizard@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Based on your description, you are talking about pictures in HTML
> emails which are actually links to pictures stored on a server. By
> default, these are not retrieved because a spammer can use them to
> detect that a certain spam recipient has attempted to read a spam
> email. They do this by giving custom names to the pictures, such as
> "IMG1-email2987345-pshebnicki-gmail-com.jpg" or something like that
> (but nowadays they don't make it so obvious).  This lets them
> determine where the "fresh meat" is, and what bait works best.
>
> In Outlook 2007, go to Tools, Option, Preferences, Junk E-mail, and
> UN-check "disable links".
>
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