Viewing HTML e-mail is awful and annoying!!!

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Jack McDonald

The MS Office gurus have said that they do this for security reasons
and that to prevent this you must add the senders e-mail to your
personal address book.

I continue to add these addresses to my address book and in fact many
were already there and I continue to get HTML e-mails with no photos
and graphics.

This is a silly and extremely annoying feature for those that want to
view (& SEND!!!!) html e-mail.

Let's hope the gurus can fix this.
 
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Robert L. Haar

This is a silly and extremely annoying feature for those that want to
view (& SEND!!!!) html e-mail.
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At the risk of starting a flame war, why do want to use HTML for email
messages? The only messages that I get like that are either lame newbies
who want to color code their text or SPAM or virus infected messages. I have
yet to see a legitimate reason why I would want to send or receive email in
any form other than straight text. Anything more structured works better as
an attachment.

Until Microsoft fixes the security problems with their HTML engines, it is
just not worth the risk.
Let's hope the gurus can fix this.
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Yes indeed. Mail clients should either reject HTML email or at least strip
out all the HTML code, and block the ability to create or send HMTL. It was
a stupid idea to begin with and has not gotten better with age.
 
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Nick Collingridge

Once again I will repeat this message (my take on it) as this topic
seems to come up a lot. But in reply to the question regarding why use
HTML mail at all - if you want to stay in the past, then OK. But it
really is the difference between a magazine and a roneoed newsletter.
I (and countless others) receive many HTML formatted emails per day
from a variety of sources, and I (and countless others) like to be
able to view them in their fully formatted glory. If you don't want
this feature then that's fine for you, but don't try and impose your
reactionary views on this onto other people. Now onto my comments on
the way this has been implemented - it would be really great to get a
comment on this from someone at Microsoft, by the way...

This may be a security measure, but surely it should be in the user's
control to decide whether the security benefit in their case outweighs
the hassle and time wasted in having to click on the tiny link in
every HTML message when you want to see the images? It really is
rather anti-user-friendly and dis-empowering to take away the user's
choice in this matter.

In addition, the way in which this "feature" is implemented really
hasn't had much thought:

1. The link provided to display messages is way too small - why
couldn't it have been a button?
2. Why is there no command key equivalent? The omission of this really
is stupid - or if there actually is a command key equivalent that I
don't know about, the command should be in a menu somewhere so that
it's obvious what that equivalent is, or displayed after the text in
the Download Pictures link (like "Download Pictures (Cmd-Space)" or
whatever).
3. There should be a way of adding HTML email sender's addresses to a
different list than the contacts database. I really don't want my
contact database to be filled up with email addresses that I will
NEVER want to use from a new mail message. And adding the domain to
the exclusion list seems to be a real sledgehammer to crack a nut
approach.
 
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