# Outlook/Exchange, you're pretty damn stupid. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 1, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-exchange-youre-pretty-damn-stupid/359055 "2006-06-01T19:43:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2006, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-exchange-youre-pretty-damn-stupid/359055/21 "2006-06-03T14:35:59Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > Bullshit. Just because you don’t like it, doesn’t make it _bad_. You’d rather a PDF? HTML mail viewers are buggy and there are a large number of exploits that are sent to computers via badly formed html emails. Also HTML emails allow the senders to track how people view the emails if they contain images that exist on the senders computers rather than in the email itself. HTML email is bad stop sending it. ---
**Author:** ![threemae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f9b8f/32.png) [@threemae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threemae)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-exchange-youre-pretty-damn-stupid/359055/22 "2006-06-03T17:37:07Z")
> [@gazpacho](#): > > HTML email is bad stop sending it. Or you’re going to… spank me? Yeah, **gazpacho** , I like being bad, TELL ME I’M BAD, really, REALLY bad! In Outlook the photos don’t download until you tell them to so I don’t see where the security risk really is, or at least any more so than the idiots that run .exe attachments from e-mail. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-exchange-youre-pretty-damn-stupid/359055/23 "2006-06-04T00:41:26Z")
> [@gazpacho](#): > > HTML mail viewers are buggy and there are a large number of exploits that are sent to computers via badly formed html emails. Also HTML emails allow the senders to track how people view the emails if they contain images that exist on the senders computers rather than in the email itself. HTML email is bad stop sending it. HTML email sent from an employer’s server to an employee of the company is not a security risk. Get over your Chicken Little self. ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-exchange-youre-pretty-damn-stupid/359055/24 "2006-06-04T00:43:12Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > HTML email sent from an employer’s server to an employee of the company is not a security risk. Get over your Chicken Little self. But to view them you have to have it enabled for all email. They are bad stop sending them. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-exchange-youre-pretty-damn-stupid/359055/25 "2006-06-04T00:44:08Z")
Fuck off. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-exchange-youre-pretty-damn-stupid/359055/26 "2006-06-04T00:50:17Z")
To expand, if you don’t know how to set your preferences to accept images from designated servers and not unknown servers, then you don’t know enough about email to be making the determination of what is “good” or “bad” and your opinion, to me, is worthless. Your repeated admonishment is annoying, wrong and baseless. ---
**Author:** ![jdc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@jdc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jdc)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-exchange-youre-pretty-damn-stupid/359055/27 "2006-06-04T22:07:30Z")
Try this for stupid Outlook. Click Reply Draft a reply, but do not send. Delete draft Outlook will show the message as replied to. It is easy to get distracted, leave a draft reply handing around for a while, then delete it in error. Then you have to “find related messages” or search your outbox to see if you really replied or not, ---
**Author:** ![threemae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f9b8f/32.png) [@threemae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threemae)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-exchange-youre-pretty-damn-stupid/359055/28 "2006-06-04T23:13:16Z")
> [@gazpacho](#): > > They are bad stop sending them. Yes, I am _so_ bad! ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-exchange-youre-pretty-damn-stupid/359055/29 "2006-06-05T09:16:12Z")
**crazyjoe** , it’s been a while and I’m a bit rusty, but it should be possible to write a little macro which can run when you open Outlook or which can be hooked up to a menu and do things to messages after you’ve received them. If you want to e-mail me what version of Outlook you use and exactly what you want to do, I’ll see if I can find some free time at work during breaks and lunch to build something for you. I’m with **yoyodyne**. I’ve designed forms in Outlook, and I don’t think I’ve ever made read receipts standard on them. You might want to have a word with whoever designed the form or your IT department. Chances are, you’re not the only one who’s annoyed by this. ---
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-exchange-youre-pretty-damn-stupid/359055/30 "2006-06-05T17:38:37Z")
> [@Siege](#): > > **crazyjoe** , it’s been a while and I’m a bit rusty, but it should be possible to write a little macro which can run when you open Outlook or which can be hooked up to a menu and do things to messages after you’ve received them. If you want to e-mail me what version of Outlook you use and exactly what you want to do, I’ll see if I can find some free time at work during breaks and lunch to build something for you. > > I’m with **yoyodyne**. I’ve designed forms in Outlook, and I don’t think I’ve ever made read receipts standard on them. You might want to have a word with whoever designed the form or your IT department. Chances are, you’re not the only one who’s annoyed by this. **Siege** , thanks for the offer, I really do appreciate it. I don’t want to make you waste time at work doing something for me that really only saves me a couple of seconds, and would probably get more complicated than I would care to have it. And my rant really isn’t about the firm with built-in read reciepts, it’s that outlook handles read receipts and distro lists in an stupid way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-exchange-youre-pretty-damn-stupid/359055.md?page=1)