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| Dear Gordon, I've been very impressed with the range of answers you give on coding issues, and I was therefore wondering if perhaps you may know a way around this problem. I tried to forward a promotional e-mail for an I.T. event to an I.T. professional that I know, but when I tried to do so I was met with an MS alert boxout that said the following: "To complete this action, Outlook must download content from a server other than your e-mail server. This could verify to the sender that your e-mail address is valid and increase the amount of junk e-mail you receive in the future." Is there any way that I can edit the coding in the message file so that I can forward it, without it contacting the senders server? Many Thanks John [forumite name 'cocorico']
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I've had a similar message when using Outlook Express which was triggered because the email I was sending contained images. You would expect it to just email the same page rather than download the images and send them with the email wouldn't you?
The MS website seems to imply you can't avoid the problem unless you download the images. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/831608
Stupid really 
But then, perhaps Gordon knows best. After all, I too am impressed with most of his answers!
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John, did you actually email Gordon or are you hoping that he will read this post?
If you haven't it may be as well to do so.
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| Hi Spedley, I would imagine that the initial purpose of not having the images as part of the e-mail body is to reduce file size. This does two things, firstly, it reduces the risk of the mail falling fowl of rules set in a firewall, server, or e-mail client program at the client end. Some system administrators set preferences to automatically disgard incoming mails whose size [including any attachements] is above an arbitrary decided size. This achieves performance improvements in the system, as well as an additional safeguard since many system administrators are of the view that e-mails above this arbitrary decided size are potentially onerous. An active hyperlink to the senders own servers to cause the images to be displayed, gets around this. The thing is that once your e-mail client has agreed to download content from a specific third party source, that goes for anything else that may be coded in there as well. BG, I just followed the instructions on Simon's posting 'How this works' in this forum, Posted 10/02/2006 11:09:58 ..... have a look! I would assume since I have followed the instructions to the letter, there is some process of shared responsibility amongst MM admin and editorial, to visit here on a regular basis and pass correspondence on to the appropriate parties [ in this case Gordon Hulmes] so there would be no need for me to e-mail him directly? Thanks John
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Hi cocorico, I know what you mean. There are many reasons not to send images in emails but I didn't quite mean that. If you copy and paste the whole message or forward it as an attachment it should work fine because it would send the links to the images - the same as you received. I can understand some of the reasons for it but it is still stupid that you can't do the same thing when you forward an email.
It was wise to remind admin etc that they should notify the relevent people of interesting posts. I'd forget after over a year 
It would be nice if the forum actually emailed the relevent admin whenever their name was mentioned. Mmmm, I think I may add that idea to my forum!
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