Outlook will eventually display the message (it takes a minute or so here.) However, every time you select an affected message you need to wait for Outlook to time out. Thanks PayPal and 2o7.net for bringing this bug to my attention!īe patient. Until its fixed, any marketer can defeat the blocked external content feature by leaving the HTTP off the URL and track what you did with the message, or display images. it defeats the reason many people blocking web bugs in email: not being tracked when you read email. But if the URL were valid, Outlook would happily download the content. In this case, the URL is invalid, so Outlook hangs until it times out. Outlook thinks the address is a local network address, and since it trusts local network addresses, it tries to connect. I don’t allow any automatic downloads, not even from trusted addresses, but Fiddler shows traffic to when I select a message that causes Outlook to hang.īad Outlook! When I say "don’t download external content" I don't want you to contact the server.
In addition to the hangs, another concern is that Outlook is trying to connect to a web address, even though all external content is supposed to be blocked.
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