Microsoft Outlook Tip: Allow Pictures to Automatically Download

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Thank you for sharing!

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Using Safe Senders has helped a lot; with so much spam coming these days, allowing all could be dangerous. Thanks for sharing!

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Great tip!! So helpful!!

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Thank you for sharing!

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Thank you for the tip!

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Great tip! Thanks for sharing with us!

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Always helpful tips. Thank you.

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Thanks for sharing this great tip!

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Great Tip! I am glad that I learned something new. :slight_smile:

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In my previous roles as IT systems manager, I generally recommended keeping this option set to prevent automatically downloading images. That’s because most people hate spam, and web-based images is one way spammers can tell theres a real person on the other end of the email you just opened. For those of you that turn on this feature, just be prepared to receive 10x to 100x the number of junk mail that you currently receive.

And since the problem is that your email address becomes known as “active” on the dark web—it takes a while to subside once it is out there. So turning image loading off again helps eventually but it often takes 3-6 months to get spam levels back down to normal.

If you already have a great spam filter, this might be less of a concern for you.

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Great tip. An email without the pictures is not an email. :slight_smile:

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With most of our staff still working remotely and not having instant access to an IT department to help with such issues, this is a great tip to share with my staff.

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Thank you for sharing this tip!

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Nice tip. Already changed my outlook

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Thanks for sharing this article

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Thanks for sharing this!

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Great tip! I was wondering why I had to push to download pictures every time.

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Good to know, thanks for sharing!

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This is good to know and that I have an option, thanks for sharing!

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Ive always wondered about this, thanks for sharing!

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