ET'ers,

First:  Entourage X under 10.2.4.

Like most of us, I suppose, I frequently get complex HTML messages which are
spam. In a spam-free world, I would always allow access to the net when
displaying complex HTML, and I would always have the preview pane open.  In
the real world, I don't want to do both of those things because 1) the
graphics links in spam may contain "web bugs" that confirm the validity of
my e-address (so the spammer can sell it), and 2) many of the spam graphics
are just plain offensive.

When I turn off network access for displaying complex HTML, it protects me
from the nasties, but it also cripples nice messages with complex HTML (such
as newsletters from Apple).  Unfortunately, the scope of the setting is
Entourage-wide;  further, it appears that changing the setting from
"disallow" to "allow" requires a relaunch of Entourage to take effect.

Another way to protect myself is to turn the preview pane off, so that
messages are never automatically displayed, but that is awkward (a paneless
pain, so to speak) when I am trying to determine if the junk filter has any
false positives.

What I would like best is a contextual-menu item available when network
access is disallowed.  The menu item would load the clicked-on graphic.  A
toolbar button would load all graphics on the page.  Then I could open
emails without fear, but get the nice HTML as designed with a single
additional click.

Short of a new version of Entourage, is there any procedure or option you
think would help?  Any hope from the script wizards?

And could MBU kindly consider different scoping and affordances to deal with
complex HTML?

-- Joshua


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