Comments for Will Outlook's reading pane tell senders I've seen their mail?

Comment from Ricus on 2009-07-09

2009-07-09T20:03:10Z

While Microsoft may tell us all that the reading pane in Outlook is safe, please keep in mind that everyday, someone finds a hole in Microsoft's OS and other software to exploit. Just food for thought.

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Comment from Hans on 2006-07-01

2006-07-01T16:00:19Z

The problem is that there are several ways to embed pictures in email. Images as attachments are shown in the preview pane, for example, or below the message. My suggestion, if it's a real problem, is to simply not use the preview pane. I realize that's less than optimal.

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Comment from jayclimbs on 2006-06-27

2006-06-28T03:23:11Z

I have a relevant Outlook Xpress 6.0 question. I get regular email notices from Buy.com. Wanted to, signed up for 'em. When the emails come, the images are not displayed by default. There's even a little message telling me that for security reasons, images are not display yaddayadda. That's OK with me, I don't care about that.
BUT...lately, I've been getting a bit of spam. Pornographic spam, from Japan or China or Korea or somewhere like that. The images -pornographic images- DO display. No choice, there they are in the preview pane for me and my children, pets, and wife to see.
First, I don't know how I got found (though I'm guessing it was through bonafidereviews.com, since it seems they're forwarded from that site) and I don't want these at all, but WHY does OExpress 6.0 take such great pains to save me from pictures of things like USB drives in an email I explicitly joined, but drop the bombs on me with these spam emails from strangers on the other side of the planet?
Any ideas how to stop this behavior?

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