From jbartow at winhaven.net Thu Sep 17 20:58:12 2015 From: jbartow at winhaven.net (John R Bartow) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 20:58:12 -0500 Subject: [Dba-office] Outlook 2003 images not displaying Message-ID: <000f01d0f1b5$79e48b60$6dada220$@winhaven.net> Hi all, I've got a client who's Outlook 2003 images won't display in her received emails if they have a link associated with them. (Link as in the image is on the internet and has to download to display or link in the image to open a browser to a website.) I've gone through all of the settings and checked them to allow anything, I've cleared the temporary internet files cache (which is one possible cause) and I've sent a plain embedded image in an email to her and it displays fine. But things like facebook images will not come through at all. Just red Xs. Any ideas? TIA John B From jbodin at sbor.com Thu Sep 17 21:15:09 2015 From: jbodin at sbor.com (John Bodin) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 02:15:09 +0000 Subject: [Dba-office] Outlook 2003 images not displaying In-Reply-To: <000f01d0f1b5$79e48b60$6dada220$@winhaven.net> References: <000f01d0f1b5$79e48b60$6dada220$@winhaven.net> Message-ID: Hi John, I had this with a different version of Outlook but the solution hopefully will be the same. You need to clear or change the OutlookSecureTempFolder. To find out what it is and either erase the files or point it to a different folder of your choice, run RegEdit and go to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Security (I think 2003 was 11.0). There s/b a key for OutlookSecureTempFolder so see what that path is and delete the files in there. Or change it to C:\OLTemp or whatever. Then try opening Outlook and see if pictures work. Hope that is it. John B2 -----Original Message----- From: Dba-office [mailto:dba-office-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John R Bartow Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 9:58 PM To: DBA Office; 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: [Dba-office] Outlook 2003 images not displaying Importance: High Hi all, I've got a client who's Outlook 2003 images won't display in her received emails if they have a link associated with them. (Link as in the image is on the internet and has to download to display or link in the image to open a browser to a website.) I've gone through all of the settings and checked them to allow anything, I've cleared the temporary internet files cache (which is one possible cause) and I've sent a plain embedded image in an email to her and it displays fine. But things like facebook images will not come through at all. Just red Xs. Any ideas? TIA John B _______________________________________________ Dba-office mailing list Dba-office at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-office From hkotsch at arcor.de Fri Sep 18 04:25:17 2015 From: hkotsch at arcor.de (Helmut Kotsch) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 11:25:17 +0200 Subject: [Dba-office] Outlook 2003 images not displaying In-Reply-To: <000f01d0f1b5$79e48b60$6dada220$@winhaven.net> References: <000f01d0f1b5$79e48b60$6dada220$@winhaven.net> Message-ID: <002a01d0f1f3$eef56170$cce02450$@de> This is a problem introduced by Microsoft with Vista. It is such an obvious con. Its yet another deliberate flaw and one Microsoft do not intend to fix until someone (like me) finds them out. Microsoft claim that even after 2 years, they still cannot replicate this error - that's because they won't install Thunderbird or Lotus Notes to do it. It cannot be replicated by sending email from Outlook. This issue goes to the heart of the paranoid hostility Microsoft shows towards any company that dares to threaten its market position. Simply put, in some email clients such as Thunderbird and Lotus Notes, if the TO: field of an email is left blank (by using BCC) the senders email client auto-populates the otherwise blank TO: field with the malformed email address "undisclosed-recipients:;" prior to sending the email. This is technically a fault with the senders email client. The MIME decoding in Vista (used by Outlook 2003) has been changed since XP to reject this and in a manner Outlook 2003 does not expect. Outlook then simply assumes the email is in plain text ie - not MIME format. The fix is to ask your Thunderbird or Lotus Notes user sending the BCC email to populate the TO field with their own email address. Tell them that if they leave TO: blank when sending using BCC, all Outlook/Vista recipients won't be able to read their email. That's usually enough. Word I have from the inside is that Microsoft will continue to try to dishonestly claim they cannot replicate this fault because they do not want to fix it. They deliberately introduced the fault in Vista as a ploy to get Outlook 2003 users to upgrade to Outlook 2005 (etc). They believe its subtle enough that it won't be put down to any deliberate act by them. Using these sorts of unethical ploys and scams are the same way Microsoft have been conning people for the last 30 years to make Bill Gates and his cronies obscenely and filthy stinking rich. They just put a few little bugs here and there to annoy the living *** out of you, and then say "hey look - its fixed in the new version!". People buy it because they have no choice - like drug addicts to a drug dealer they just keep going back again and again and again. Wake up to it ! Demonstrate your dissatisfaction and demand that Microsoft fix Outlook 2003 in Vista and they be prosecuted by Federal authorities over this for a monumental fraud. Helmut -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: Dba-office [mailto:dba-office-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] Im Auftrag von John R Bartow Gesendet: Freitag, 18. September 2015 03:58 An: DBA Office; 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Betreff: [Dba-office] Outlook 2003 images not displaying Wichtigkeit: Hoch Hi all, I've got a client who's Outlook 2003 images won't display in her received emails if they have a link associated with them. (Link as in the image is on the internet and has to download to display or link in the image to open a browser to a website.) I've gone through all of the settings and checked them to allow anything, I've cleared the temporary internet files cache (which is one possible cause) and I've sent a plain embedded image in an email to her and it displays fine. But things like facebook images will not come through at all. Just red Xs. Any ideas? TIA John B _______________________________________________ Dba-office mailing list Dba-office at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-office From ssharkins at gmail.com Fri Sep 18 07:14:29 2015 From: ssharkins at gmail.com (Susan Harkins) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 08:14:29 -0400 Subject: [Dba-office] Outlook 2003 images not displaying In-Reply-To: <000f01d0f1b5$79e48b60$6dada220$@winhaven.net> References: <000f01d0f1b5$79e48b60$6dada220$@winhaven.net> Message-ID: John, you probably already know that there's a setting for downloading, or not -- I can't even recall where you might find it in 2003. When this setting is disabled, there's usually a bar across the top of the screen that lets you click to download the images. That's the only thing I can think of. < https://support.office.com/en-us/article/block-or-unblock-automatic-picture-downloads-in-email-messages-15e08854-6808-49b1-9a0a-50b81f2d617a > Susan H. On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 9:58 PM, John R Bartow wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got a client who's Outlook 2003 images won't display in her received > emails if they have a link associated with them. (Link as in the image is > on > the internet and has to download to display or link in the image to open a > browser to a website.) > > > > I've gone through all of the settings and checked them to allow anything, > I've cleared the temporary internet files cache (which is one possible > cause) and I've sent a plain embedded image in an email to her and it > displays fine. But things like facebook images will not come through at > all. > Just red Xs. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > TIA > > John B > > _______________________________________________ > Dba-office mailing list > Dba-office at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-office >