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[Terry]

Does receiving a jpg pasted into an email flag it is dangerous? When I
get a message to block the image, does a message get labeled
potentially dangerous from just containing a pasted jpg or is this some
other kind of code that gets blocked?

I plan to post at least two more questions. I think breaking them up
keeps things more simple. I am sure I will get corrected if I should
have tried to put them all in one post.

[Chris Ilias]

_Terry_ spoke thusly on 29/11/2006 9:46 PM:

> Does receiving a jpg pasted into an email flag it is dangerous? When I
> get a message to block the image, does a message get labeled
> potentially dangerous from just containing a pasted jpg or is this some
> other kind of code that gets blocked?

It's probably a remote image, which are blocked by default.
That setting is in Tools-->Options-->Privacy-->General.
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[Christopher Jahn]

"Terry" <kilo...@charter.net> wrote in
news:1164854764.2...@n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com:

> Does receiving a jpg pasted into an email flag it is
> dangerous? When I get a message to block the image, does a
> message get labeled potentially dangerous from just containing
> a pasted jpg or is this some other kind of code that gets
> blocked?

No.

The thing that gets blocked is a REMOTE image. That's when I
code the email to display an image stored on my server instead of
sending the image as an attachment to the email. You see the
image, and my server tells me what IP address accessed the image
for viewing.

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[Tim Judd]

Christopher Jahn wrote:
> "Terry" <kilo...@charter.net> wrote in
> news:1164854764.2...@n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com:
>
>> Does receiving a jpg pasted into an email flag it is
>> dangerous? When I get a message to block the image, does a
>> message get labeled potentially dangerous from just containing
>> a pasted jpg or is this some other kind of code that gets
>> blocked?
>
> No.
>
> The thing that gets blocked is a REMOTE image. That's when I
> code the email to display an image stored on my server instead of
> sending the image as an attachment to the email. You see the
> image, and my server tells me what IP address accessed the image
> for viewing.
>

..or it's tagged with metadata in the webserver logs of WHICH email
addressed opened that spam, which tells the source two things:
1) valid address
2) actively checked

the spammer would typically put it on some whitelist that it's a good
email address and now you'll get boatloads of new spam, because of one
image in one email, specially crafted.