Downloading pictures for selected contacts
Pictures in messages from some senders are not downloaded unless I click a bar above the message. Pictures in messages from others download as soon as the message is opened.
Have I created some kind of list that allows this to occur?
If so, how can I edit the list?
Since Outlook 2003, Outlook will by default block images from being automatically downloaded from the Internet but they will automatically download for addresses that you have specified in the Safe Senders and Safe Recipients Lists of the Junk E-mail filter.
Editing the Safe Sender and Safe Recipients lists
To edit these lists, use the Safe Senders and Safe Recipients lists in the Junk E-mail Options dialog.
- Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007
Tools-> Options-> Junk Email… - Outlook 2010
tab Home-> button: Junk-> Junk E-mail Options…
Block Internet pictures, even from Safe Senders and Safe Recipients
If you don’t like this behavior and you want to always block pictures from being automatically downloaded from the Internet, then you can disable the option;
”Permit downloads in e-mail messages from sender and to recipients defined in the Safe Senders and Safe Recipients Lists used by the Junk E-mail filter.”
- Outlook 2003
Tools-> Options-> tab Security-> button: Change Automatic Download Settings… - Outlook 2007
Tools-> Trust Center…-> section: Automatic Download - Outlook 2010
File-> Options-> Trust Center-> button: Trust Center Settings…-> section: Automatic Download
Note: You might indeed want to disable this option when a spammer is abusing the address of a contact you have defined in your Safe Senders list. This way, no tracking image is downloaded then and your address won’t be exposed.
Block Internet content in messages even when the sender or recipient address is safe.
