One of the methods that spammers often use to check if an email is valid, is by sending images from their server. Outlook does this by default as a security feature, therefore it prevents images and some HTML features that are sent from an external user from being downloaded until you change the settings to allow it.
When this message appears, you have to click on the message to manually download the image which can be quite an inconvenience, especially if you have multiple images to download. To help protect your privacy, Outlook prevented automatic download of some pictures in this message”. You may also see a small message in the header saying “Click here to download pictures.
In Outlook’s default settings, images and web-linked images will not be automatically downloaded from emails that are received from an external sender. Why doesn’t Outlook automatically download images by default? Uncheck the option for ‘Don’t download pictures automatically in standard HTML email messages or RSS items’.Go to Outlook and sign in using your credentials.Changing settings to allow automatic image download: To do this, you need to make sure that your settings are changed to allow images to automatically download.
This blog post will outline with detailed screenshots how you can adjust your settings if these web-linked images are not being displayed.
Therefore, whether you are on the sending or the receiving end of a web-linked image, it is vital for all web linked images to work properly. This is due to the visual aspect it brings to the email and people tend to go more towards things that seem visually pleasing to them. This is because people tend to be a lot more drawn to images and pictures than they would be if you were to simply insert a web link within the email. Including wed-linked images to an email is an incredibly effective way to encourage the email recipient to visit your website (or the website that the image is linked to).