Whenever somebody sends me an e-mail, all the images come out as links. I haven’t seen any option in Outlook that remedies the situation, so I’m guessing it’s something I have to configure in my OS. I’m using NT at work. Any ideas?
You want the images to come out when you open the mail? Then the sender needs to ‘send page’ instead of ‘send Link’. That may work. Are the images from a Web Sight or a PC?
It’s everything from spam ads to e-cards to work notices.
Example: I bought something from Best Buy online, so they have me on their mailing list. They send images of the products they’re advertising, but they all come out as links. Even the bold lines. What I get is an e-mail chock full of HTML code.
Which version of Outlook?
Try this (true for 2003, maybe earlier versions):
Go to Tools
Select Options
Click the Mail Format tab
Click the Internet Format button
Check the box that says to send the pictures instead of linking to them
Click ok on all the boxes until they go away.
Using Outlook 97, and it doesn’t have those features you listed.
Maybe one day our IT dept will update it. Oh well…
Nowadays most email, particularly commercial email is sent as HTML. Outlook 97 is too old to interpret html. It assumes all email is pure text, so it just displays the HTML codes to you.
Theres nothing you can do about this except to tell people to send all mail to you formatted as “plain text”. That works for people, but many commercial websites lack a setting like that for their promotional mail. Some have the option, most don’t.
The only upside to using ancient software like that is that it’s immune to HTML-based attacks. It has plenty of other security problems though.