This message contains unloaded images... getting it to stop!

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This message contains unloaded images... getting it to stop!

Many new messages in my Inbox come in, with a line across the stop, saying, "This message contains unloaded images." And there's a button to the right, "Load Images" that I need to push in order to load any images in that email.

How do I get Mail to stop doing that? I want Mail to load every. single. image. All the time. Always and forever. Yes, even if it's detrimental to my moral fiber.

2.66Ghz Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.1), 7 gigs of Ram, MacBook

Posted on Nov 18, 2007 9:18 PM

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Answer 1

braintoniq Author

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Nov 19, 2007 5:55 AM in response to MyApple8MyPC

I've got a prettty good spam catching system set up. I forward all 12 of my email accounts through one GMail account, and then set up only that one GMail account on Mail. GMail's spam-catching system is just stellar. Spam stopped virtually overnight once I did this. But I also then use SpamSieve in Mail, and that catches the few that come through.

I'm more worried about my moral fiber.

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igrok-mac

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Nov 19, 2007 6:00 AM in response to braintoniq

The problem is that a lot of spam contain images that when loaded verify your email account as "live" with the originator of the spam. So simply viewing the images, which download from the originator's server, tells the spammer that your account is good for sending spam. This then propagates among spammers, and your email address becomes the target for more spam. That's why it's generally a good idea to turn on this feature. But of course ymmv.

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Answer 3

Nov 19, 2007 10:50 AM in response to braintoniq

Keep in mind that you only just now turned that feature off. It will take a few weeks for them to catch up with you, and once they do you can't reverse the procedure because they'll already know that your e-mail address is a good one to use for sending their spam to. Multiply the amount of spam you'll get by at least a factor of 10. You didn't think that Apple was turning off these images just to ruin your day did you? 🙂 Each image contains a bot that when loaded goes back to the spammers and tells them that your e-mail address is a 'real' e-mail address that they can spam. But it's your computer, your spam, enjoy...

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roam

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Nov 18, 2007 9:28 PM in response to braintoniq

Hi

In Mail preferences > Viewing, select *Display images and embedded objects in HTML messages*. If that is selected, deselect it and reselect it once again.

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