Pictures within email require download

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Chris Possessky

Whenever I get images in an email, the Mactopia newsletter for example, they
show up as empty boxes and I am required to clink on a link to download the
image(s). Is there a way to have them downloaded automatically?

Chris Possessky
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Chris Possessky said:
Whenever I get images in an email, the Mactopia newsletter for example, they
show up as empty boxes and I am required to clink on a link to download the
image(s). Is there a way to have them downloaded automatically?
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Well it's not recommended for security and anti-spamming reasons. The
prefs let you auto-download images from people in your address book if
you want. You could check this option and add a contact for Mactopia in
your address book for instance.

Corentin
 
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Michel Bintener

Well it's not recommended for security and anti-spamming reasons. The
prefs let you auto-download images from people in your address book if
you want. You could check this option and add a contact for Mactopia in
your address book for instance.

Corentin
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A much better feature (which only works in conjunction with Entourage's junk
mail filter) is the Safe Domains list. In Tools>Junk E-Mail Protection,
switch to the "Safe Domains" tab. You'll see a text field where you can
enter domains which you know to be safe (in the case of the Mactopia
newsletter, this would be "newsletter.microsoft.com", without the quotation
marks). Entourage automatically displays entire messages from senders who
are on the Safe Domains list, and you won't have to add newsletter addresses
to your address book.

Alternatively, there's one option to bypass Entourage's download block
entirely: if you add ".com", ".net" and ".org" (again, without quotation
marks) to the Safe Domains list, Entourage will automatically display
messages ending in these domains, and for the English-speaking world, these
domains should cover most about everything.

Michel
 
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Paul Berkowitz

A much better feature (which only works in conjunction with Entourage's junk
mail filter) is the Safe Domains list. In Tools>Junk E-Mail Protection,
switch to the "Safe Domains" tab. You'll see a text field where you can
enter domains which you know to be safe (in the case of the Mactopia
newsletter, this would be "newsletter.microsoft.com", without the quotation
marks). Entourage automatically displays entire messages from senders who
are on the Safe Domains list, and you won't have to add newsletter addresses
to your address book.
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Why do you think that's "much better", Michel? What could be wrong with
adding MacTopia to your Address Book? I might use the Safe Domain in a
situation where I knew I might be getting messages from 100 people at the
same (company) domain, and trusted all of them, but didn't need more than 3
or 4 of them in my Address Book. "Safe Domain" is definitely _not_ advisable
for larger ISP-type domains (aol.com, hotmail.com. earthlink.com, etc.),
with thousands or millions of subscribers you don't know, from which you
might get spam or worse some day. In this case you'd definitely want to add
the few specific people to your Address Book.

If by any chance the MacTopia newsletter is coming from anywhere at all
@microsoft.com, you most definitely would _not_ want to add that to Safe
Domains, since there are people sending out worms and viruses and faking a
microsoft.com address. (So far none of them can hurt a Mac, or Entourage,
but one of these days there will be one.) You'd definitely want to add the
newsletter to your Address Book. I don't know the email address so I don't
know if this is relevant or not. But what could be wrong about it, anyway?

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Michel Bintener

Why do you think that's "much better", Michel? What could be wrong with
adding MacTopia to your Address Book? I might use the Safe Domain in a
situation where I knew I might be getting messages from 100 people at the
same (company) domain, and trusted all of them, but didn't need more than 3
or 4 of them in my Address Book. "Safe Domain" is definitely _not_ advisable
for larger ISP-type domains (aol.com, hotmail.com. earthlink.com, etc.),
with thousands or millions of subscribers you don't know, from which you
might get spam or worse some day. In this case you'd definitely want to add
the few specific people to your Address Book.

If by any chance the MacTopia newsletter is coming from anywhere at all
@microsoft.com, you most definitely would _not_ want to add that to Safe
Domains, since there are people sending out worms and viruses and faking a
microsoft.com address. (So far none of them can hurt a Mac, or Entourage,
but one of these days there will be one.) You'd definitely want to add the
newsletter to your Address Book. I don't know the email address so I don't
know if this is relevant or not. But what could be wrong about it, anyway?
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"Much better" is of course highly subjective, since I personally do not want
to add newsletter addresses as contacts to my address book, mostly out of
aesthetic reasons; I keep newsletter domains stored in the Safe Domains
list, and persons in the address book. And yes, I know that there are a
number of spammers using fake "microsoft.com" email addresses (I'm
frequently receiving some of these urging me to update my Outlook, Outlook
Express and Internet Explorer with the attached .exe file), but I haven't
received any kind of spam from the "newsletter.microsoft.com" domain yet,
though I know that this might be possible.
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Michel Bintener said:
A much better feature (which only works in conjunction with Entourage's junk
mail filter) is the Safe Domains list. In Tools>Junk E-Mail Protection,
switch to the "Safe Domains" tab. You'll see a text field where you can
enter domains which you know to be safe
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E-mails get spoofed all the time. I receive spam that pretends to be
from my domina all the time :-\


Corentin
 
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