Windows XP SP3 and Outlook Express 6

I just started getting "Red Xs" in coming mail intead of images and
photos?
How do I get rid of these red Xs?
Any help would be appreciated.

In Options - Security there's an option to "Block
images and external content in HTML email". If that's
checked images won't display. That's for security and
privacy. In amny cases images are hidden web bugs
that track you reading email. (Sleazy companies like
ConstantContact offer such tracking services, allowing
the sender to know whenever you open an email and
in some cases how far down you read.)

If you want to allow images you can uncheck that
option. Or you could ask people to attach the images
instead of writing HTML email. In some cases you might
be able to save the images as attachments. I don't
remember offhand. I actually can't remember the last
time I received an HTML email with images.


"AAH" wrote in message
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| I just started getting "Red Xs" in coming mail intead of images and
| photos?
| How do I get rid of these red Xs?
| Any help would be appreciated.
|
|

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In message , Mayayana
writes:
In Options - Security there's an option to "Block
images and external content in HTML email". If that's
checked images won't display. That's for security and
privacy. In amny cases images are hidden web bugs
that track you reading email. (Sleazy companies like
ConstantContact offer such tracking services, allowing
the sender to know whenever you open an email and
in some cases how far down you read.)

If you want to allow images you can uncheck that
option. Or you could ask people to attach the images
instead of writing HTML email. In some cases you might
be able to save the images as attachments. I don't
remember offhand. I actually can't remember the last
time I received an HTML email with images.


"AAH" wrote in message
...
|
| I just started getting "Red Xs" in coming mail intead of images and
| photos?
| How do I get rid of these red Xs?
| Any help would be appreciated.
[]
If you've "just started getting" these and you _haven't_ changed that
option (but you _do_ have it set to block when you look), then your
correspondent has started using embedded links (makes for much smaller
emails) rather than embedded images.

As Mayayana says, many companies use this as a means of tracking - they
embed links to images (not always ones you can see: 1 × 1 pixel ones are
popular!), and whenever you look at the email, your PC fetches them, and
they know you've read the email (the URL of the images is specific to
the email and to you).

In Thunderbird, you get a bar that offers you the option to allow images
for this email only, or always for this sender (I presume there's also
an option to always allow them for all senders; I haven't looked).
Always for this sender allows you to enable them for people you trust. I
don't _think_ OE has this sort of granularity.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can
still ripen a bunch of grapes as it if had nothing else in the universe to do.
-Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)