Neil said:
Since I update to the XP (2), I have not been able to
receive color in my outlook express messages (no
pictures, etc.). When I go to my hotmail account
directly, everything is showing up correctly, but somehow
lose the color when it transfers to outlook express.
Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.
It is because with the new security options, OE is set up to read in
plain text instead of .html. Here is some information about OE changes
from Microsoft:
Outlook Express now has picture handling facilities similar to Outlook
2003. This prevents senders of spam e-mail from determining whether a
recipient opens a message. It does this by preventing the automatic
display of pictures from Internet servers. The user is presented with
placeholders and the Information Bar gives the user the option to
display the
picture.
[Pictures and images embedded in HTML e-mail messages can be adapted to
secretly send a message back to the sender. These are often referred to
as Web beacons. Spammers rely on information returned by these images
to confirm active e-mail addresses. Some spam messages contain Web
beacon images so small that they are invisible to the human eye-but not
to Outlook Express.
An improved defense against Web beacons is to stop pictures from
downloading until you've had a chance to review the message. Outlook
Express in Windows XP SP2 will now block images automatically in
messages from people who are not in your address book. This goes a long
way in preventing the verification of your e-mail address for spammers.
It makes your e-mail name less useful to spammers and may result in
your getting less spam over time.
This feature also minimizes a common annoyance for those using dial-up
network connections. In earlier versions of Outlook Express, if you
read an HTML e-mail message with a picture embedded in it, Outlook
Express would automatically try to connect to the Internet to retrieve
any reference images. With image blocking in Outlook Express, this will
no longer happen -
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/ieoeoverview.mspx ]
Plain text mode is now the default setting with Outlook Express in
Windows XP Service Pack 2. In plain text mode, Outlook Express uses the
rich edit control rather than the MSHTML control. This avoids some
security issues that result from the use of MSHTML by using the rich
edit control. You can reduce the attack surface by operating in Plain
Text Mode.
The following Outlook Express features are not available when running in
plain text mode:
- Changing text size
- Full text searching through the body of a mail message
Source:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2email.mspx
Malke
