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outlook.live.com not showing external images in messages
I can't get outlook.live.com to show images. I'm using an ancient account -- msn.com migrated to outlook.com, if that matters. But I also have an Office 365 subscription I'm using the service in a desktop browser.
Up to a few weeks ago, things were fine. But now mailing lists that I subscribe to (like Harbor Freight Tools advertisements, or The Wall Street Journal, or Redfin search matches, or ...) aren't showing images. This makes email pretty much unusable, since there's no UI to explicitly allow images for that email message.
I've added the email sender to my contacts and to safe senders. The mailing list is known to Outlook in the options -- seems like that's allowed, too.
When I try to search for this issue, I end up hitting answers from 2012 which describe settings and menus that aren't in my UI.
How can I get images to load? Why did they break?
I tried digging a bit deeper:
I'm looking at a message in the browser that has blocked images. If I'm looking at the message itself, I see this HTML for one of the blocked images:
<img data-imagetype="External" blockedimagesrc="https://assets.bounceexchange.com/assets/uploads/users/4035/042221/HarborFreight/tc1-155.jpg" width="155" alt="automotive" class="x_width_95" style="display:block; margin:0 auto; border:0; white-space:pre; text-align:center">
but if I view the message's original source (using three dots / view / message source) then I find this HTML for the same image:
<img src="https://assets.bounceexchange.com/assets/uploads/users/4035/042221/HarborFreight/tc1-155.jpg" width="155" style="display:block;margin=:0 auto;border:0;white-space:pre;text-align:center;" alt="automotive" class="width_95">
So it's very clear that outlook.live.com is translating the HTML and blocking the image deliberately. How can I make it stop doing that?
73 Replies
- Same here (and everywhere)... Fix your mess Microsoft!
- I'm having the same issue. Tried in different browsers, same thing.
Same ole thang over here aileverte
- Following this too. Conversation mode might resolve the issue but I hate that mode. First thing I always do is turn it off. So that's not really an answer for me.
mikeblas Yep, same thing here def a microsoft issue. I use the old hotmail account now Outlook.com, but I've had it for 20 years. Open an email NO images.
Also, something else...when I delete an email, instead of going back to my inbox after the email is deleted, it opens the next email automatically! Anyone else have this issue? Maybe this part of the Microsoft image issue in this thread?
mikeblas RETAILate! today 9/21 if by Oct 1st its not fixed - place messages everywhere you can, especially on websites of those who pays for ads on hotmail, also yahoo stock, reddit, instagram, facebook, reddit, everywhere! And I am sure MSFT will make it work not just on cell phones.
I think is must be some new setting in outlook.live.com because I have the problem when using my main account in any computer, but other accounts in those same computers show the images without any problem.
I agree with everyone. It is a Microsoft issue. If I forward the emails to Yahoo or to Gmail, everything works fine and I can see all of the images.
Thing is - we can complain about this forever. I would rather do something productive. Does Microsoft read our posts? If not, how do we communicate our concern to people at Microsoft so they can fix it?
same problem here. from another thread there is a work-around that is better than getting gmail: enable conversations and the images will show. worked for me.
I don't like conversation view, but rather tolerate it over no images which is horrible.
@ have same issue and it was changing not over night. 1) to open first email I had to do it twice. 2) images dissappears around 21st of September. 3)I did not run any updates, so it's MSFT issue 4) same behaviour in all browsers, regardless which OS is used.
- Broken for me on a range of OS/hardware/browsers the last few days though strangely when attempting to reply to an email it displays all the missing images, also the mobile app on my Android devices works fine too. There's been a range of mysterious bugs/features appearing in the website version of Outlook the last few years but this one is a real spirit crusher.
Exactly the same thing for me, and it's been about a week now. All images are blocked on outlook.com (but are fine when I reply or forward the message). On my Android phone, messages display perfectly fine.
I cannot find a setting anywhere that enables viewing of these images. I would expect these to be disabled in my JUNK folder. But NOT in my Inbox.
@Microsoft, please escalate this issue. I've kept this email and my paid account going for years because it was a (previous) account used for my business. If not resolved, I'll be forced to just stop using this account and move everything to another email account....sue
- Following this conversation as I'm having a similar issue
