Joe writes, How do I eliminate the statement “some pictures have been blocked to prevent the sender from identifying your computer” It’s really irritating to have to “cross it out” on most of my messages. I have active virus protection and a firewall. I would like to see the pictures like I did for several years on my old computer.
Microsoft enabled that option by default on recent versions of both Outlook and Outlook Express specifically because some spammers use a blank image file to identify valid email addresses. In very unscientific tests of my own email accounts, I haven’t found having the feature turned on or off does anything to reduce the junk in my inbox. I do find it annoying that the warning makes some messages unreadable and generally turn it off because the cure is more annoying than any potential disease in this case. Depending on whether you use Outlook Express or Outlook, the steps for disabling picture blocking will vary slightly.
Tag: Outlook Express
Locate Audio in Email
Greg writes, In Outlook Express I sometimes get music with the message. Is there a way to grab the music from the message? Such as MIDI,MP3 and WAV. Some of the music is really neat and I would really like to save it.
To locate and save an audio file embedded in an email message, you need to discover the source of the audio file. Typically, the source location is a Web address on the Internet, although occasionally the file is attached to the actual email message. If the file is attached to the message, you can easily save the attachment. For embedded files, you need to do some detective work.