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Outlook for Mac works with Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft 365, Outlook.com (including Hotmail and MSN), Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and iCloud Learn more about Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 is a cloud-based subscription service that brings together premium versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneDrive, with the best tools for the way people. Clear the checkbox against Don’t download pictures automatically in HTML e-mail messages or RSS items. Note: In Outlook 2007 version, follow the steps given below: Go to the Tools menu, and click Trust CenterAutomatic Download. Clear the checkbox placed in front of Don’t download pictures automatically in HTML e-mail messages or RSS items. Pictures cannot be displayed and are shown as red X in Outlook.; 2 minutes to read; Applies to: Microsoft Outlook 2010, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, Microsoft Office Outlook 2003; In this article. Original KB number: 2638687. When you open an email message that contains images in Microsoft Office Outlook, the image areas. Users with Outlook for Mac for Office 365 must posess an Outlook 365 email address, and will need to download the Outlook 365 add-in (scroll down to Install the HubSpot Sales Office 365 add-in) Thank you, Ed Justen. For privacy reasons, Outlook does not download email pictures by default. By embedding a hyperlinked image, the sender can trace your IP address, provided that the sender is good at what they do. In this article, we discuss how you can make Outlook download images automatically on Mac irrespective of whether the sender is in your contacts or not.
Author: Chris Lee, Senior Director, Information Technology
With the rise of smartphone email clients such as Apple Mail and similar, many email messages that you receive in Outlook will contain images – but they are not sent as attachments. Rather, they are embedded within the actual body of the email itself.
This is an annoyance for the many users of Microsoft Outlook (and similar email programs) who want to quickly access and save those images as file attachments.
Depending upon what version of Outlook that you have, there are two workarounds for this:
Outlook version 2010 or later
If you're using Outlook version 2010 or later, you can right-click the image and save the file directly like this:
Problem solved and you can save the image directly to your hard drive.
Save the entire email as an HTML document
If you are using an earlier version of Outlook or another email program that does not easily allow you to access attachments, here's a great workaround:
- Select FILE, and then SAVE AS:
- Choose HTML for the message format:
- You will notice that you've saved one file and one folder to your hard drive. The file is the email itself (with an .htm) extension, and the folder is the name of the email. You want to open the folder.
- Voila! Inside the folder are all your images that were contained within in the email!
There are other files in there also (mostly XML files) that make up the structure of the email itself.
Check the images carefully, as sometimes you may get two different versions of the same image (as shown above). Everything else being equal, you should select the larger file size of the two photo files.
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How to download pictures manually or automatically in Outlook?
By default pictures in email messages won’t be downloaded automatically in Microsoft Outlook. Most of time you can view the frame of pictures in the email messages, but pictures don’t display. Here we provide you with the methods to download pictures manually in one email message, and download pictures automatically for all received email messages automatically as well.
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Download pictures in email messages manually
The frames of pictures make the received email messages not easy to read. But you can download all pictures in this email message manually.
Step 1: Preview the email message with pictures in the Reading Pane.
Step 2: A warning text stays below the sender’s email address, please click the text firstly, and then click the Download Pictures in the drop down list.
It is alternative to right click the picture frame in the email message, and then click the Download Pictures item in the right-click menu.
Now all pictures are downloading in this email message, which make the received email message rich and easy-to-read.
Download pictures in email messages automatically
It might be a little boring to download pictures in received email massages manually every time. Here we arrange you with the method to download pictures for all received email messages automatically.
Step 1: First of all, please open the Trust Center dialog box:
In Outlook 2007, please click the Tools > Trust Center.
In Outlook 2010 and 2013:
- Click the File > Options;
- Click the Trust Center in the left bar;
- Click the Trust Center Settings button in the Microsoft Outlook Trust Center section.
Step 2: In the Trust Center dialog box, click the Automatic Download in the left bar.
Step 3: Uncheck the Don’t download pictures automatically in HTML e-mail messages or RSS items option.
This operation will permit Microsoft Outlook downloads pictures in all received email messages and RSS automatically.
This operation will permit Microsoft Outlook downloads pictures in all received email messages and RSS automatically.
If you do not want to download all pictures in received email messages, except for the pictures in the email messages from safe senders/recipients, safe wed sites, RSS, and more, please:
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- Keep checking the Don’t download pictures automatically in HTML e-mail messages or RSS items option.
- Check the Permit downloads in e-mail messages from senders and to recipients defined in the Safe Senders and Safe Recipients Lists used by the Junk E-mail Filter option.
- Check the Permit downloads from Web sites in this security zone: Trusted Zone options.
- Check the Permit downloads in RSS items option.
- Check the Permit downloads in SharePoint Discussion Boards option.
Step 4: Click OK buttons in each dialog box.
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.I'm having the same problem. I have followed the directions for the 'Trust Center.' It has not worked. I don't have this issue with other laptops on my network. What else can it be?
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.you might want to check your proxy / websense rules.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Same Here. I have tried every option mentioned and still have problems. Outlook 2016 running as Office 365 subscription in Windows 10
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.you might want to check your proxy / websense rules.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Tried all above and still doesn't download pictures.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Same here. All options set as described but pictures are not automatically downloaded - for NO sender, even though I have added dozens if not hundreds as 'safe senders'.
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