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Authored by: hayne on Nov 28, '03 11:26:05AM

Another way is to open the Entourage Preferences for reading mail and make sure that the item "Allow network access when displaying complex HTML" is not checked.
Of course that will mean that a lot of HTML mail will not show any images since these are usually links back to the server.

There is a similar preference item in Mail.app



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disable HTML bugs
Authored by: fletchbiz on Nov 28, '03 01:56:45PM

It should be noted that the implementation of this feature is quite a lot more convenient in Mail.app than it is in Entourage. In Entourage, if you set the preference to disallow network access for HTML, you will not be able to see any HTML that requires network access until you go back and reset the preference. Either it's on, or it's off.

In Mail.app, if you set the preference to disallow network access for HTML, it provides a Load Images button at the top of each message, which allows you to decide on a case-by-case basis which messages to view.

Thus if you accidentally open a junk mail in Mail.app, with network access disallowed, you don't have to fear that you leaked your own info to the spammer.



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disable HTML bugs
Authored by: Angus on Nov 29, '03 03:03:33AM

Yeah, I've had "Allow network access..." off for ages and it's a pain sometimes. I've been Redirecting any valid html email to my .Mac account. I'd much rather be able to toggle the network access setting on and off via a script, but I haven't found the syntax I need yet.



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