Resend: How delete cookies left by email messages?

[Norman R. Nager, Ph.D.]

This was posted on July 25 and may have been missed in the crush of the
large number of postings around that date. Can you help, please?:

How does one delete cookies left by messages opened in Entourage X SR1?
(Some companies, such as versiontracker.com and the New York Times, send
email messages with the option to accept or decline cookies. I accidentally
clicked "accept" but do not know where the cookies are stored.)

 

[Norman R. Nager, Ph.D.]

How does one delete cookies left by messages opened in Entourage X SR1?

(Some companies, such as versiontracker.com and the New York Times, send
email messages with the option to accept or decline cookies. I accidentally
clicked "accept" but do not know where the cookies are stored.)

It was suggested off-line that the cookies would probably be stored in my
browser's cookie cache.

I cleared all cookies from my browser, re-launched, and then opened an
Entourage X message from versiontracker.com with a year 2005 expiration date
and clicked on the "accept" cookies option. But the browser did not record
the saving of a cookie then or when I quit out of both Entourage and the
browser and re-launched.

It was suggested that cookies do not pose a danger. Even so, they do track
the consumer's patterns of value to those who craft and target marketing
efforts.

So, where might the Entourage X email cookies be stored?

 

[Mickey Stevens]

It was suggested off-line that the cookies would probably be stored in my
browser's cookie cache.

That could be.

I cleared all cookies from my browser, re-launched, and then opened an
Entourage X message from versiontracker.com with a year 2005 expiration date
and clicked on the "accept" cookies option. But the browser did not record
the saving of a cookie then or when I quit out of both Entourage and the
browser and re-launched.

What browser are you using? I'd imagine that since Entourage uses the
Internet Explorer rendering engine, they'd show up in Internet Explorer's
preference dialog under Receiving Files > Cookies (you would not see these
cookies in Safari, Opera, OmniWeb, Netscape, etc.).

What I would recommend trying would be to open Internet Explorer, clear all
of the cookies, and then quit. Then, launch Entourage, open the message,
and choose to accept cookies. Now re-launch Internet Explorer and check to
see if the cookie has been recorded.

It was suggested that cookies do not pose a danger. Even so, they do track
the consumer's patterns of value to those who craft and target marketing
efforts.

I agree.

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

It was suggested off-line that the cookies would probably be stored in my
browser's cookie cache.

I cleared all cookies from my browser, re-launched, and then opened an
Entourage X message from versiontracker.com with a year 2005 expiration date
and clicked on the "accept" cookies option. But the browser did not record
the saving of a cookie then or when I quit out of both Entourage and the
browser and re-launched.

It was suggested that cookies do not pose a danger. Even so, they do track
the consumer's patterns of value to those who craft and target marketing
efforts.

So, where might the Entourage X email cookies be stored?

Did you try Entourage's browser - Internet Explorer - rather than "your"
browser?

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
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[Norman R. Nager, Ph.D.]

Thanks, Paul. I checked all browsers' cookies caches but had Safari
operating as default browser when I ran my test today. I will have
Internet Explorer set as the default browser when I open tomorrow's mail
from versiontracker.com.