(You may need to enter your administrator password in Windows 7/8/10 or Vista. Right click on Notepad and choose Run as Administrator. Type Notepad in the Start menu's Search field (or find it on the Start menu). Save and close the VB Editor.Ĭreate a rule in Outlook with conditions that apply to the affected messages and select the Run a Script as the action. Expand Project1 to locate ThisOutlookSession and paste the following code into the right side of the screen. To use, press Alt+F11 to open the VBA editor. Reading all messages in plain text will allow you to switch messages back to HTML. You will not be able to convert it back to HTML later. Note: converting a message to plain text using this script will destroy the HTML part. Read all messages in plain text, or use a run a script rule to convert affected messages to plain text. Outlook will time out faster with this entry in Hosts. Other solutions: edit the hosts file to point the offending domain to the local host. 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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