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Old 05-21-2010, 09:56 PM
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Re: Blocked pictures in emails
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Originally Posted by haus View Post
It has - it's a security measure designed to prevent hackers from embedding coded image links in email messages and then checking their server logs to determine which email addresses they spammed are legit. If you automatically downloaded images in messages, every time you received a spam message your TP would download the coded image, the spammers would know they've got a real email address, the value of your address would go up substantially, and pretty soon you'll be bombarded by viagra and cialis announcements or winning prizes in Nigeria.

I suspect they will never voluntarily turn it off on the MS side, though perhaps deep down somewhere there's a regedit that controls it (at your own peril).

The option to download the entire message relates to images that are attached to the message and do not require downloading the message from a remote web server (so you can't be tracked just by reading it). You will receive those if you check "download attachments" and the entire message.
I can win prizes in Nigeria?!?!?!?!?!

But seriously... I tried searching for this when I was using my TP1 and had no luck. Then (thanks to someone like haus) i decided to just wait the 5 seconds it took for the pics to DL, and not get invaded w/more Tajikistanian Lottery Prize notifications...
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