From: arturo on
All e-mail hyperlinks are blocked by my Outlook (2003).
From: VanguardLH on
arturo wrote:

> All e-mail hyperlinks are blocked by my Outlook (2003).

Oh, "blocked", that's real detailed, uh huh. So does that mean you see
"blocked:http://..." when you hover over a URL link string or might it mean
you click on the link and get some error message which you chose not to
share here?

You got one answer from Roady which was a guess because you never did
divulge the actual error message or just what "blocked" meant. If the
problem is with "block:" showing up in the URL ...

Perhaps the e-mail is in your Junk folder where links get disabled because
they're unlikely to be safe considering why the e-mail got junked. Have you
tried moving the e-mail out of the Junk folder and into another email-type
folder (Inbox or another email folder you create)?

Or perhaps the sender pasted the link from somewhere else rather than enter
their own hyperlink text. Try the following:

- Copy the URL string from the e-mail and paste into the address bar in
the web browser and edit out the "blocked:" prefix.

- See if viewing the HTML-formatted e-mail in the Internet security zone
eliminates the problem (View -> View in Internet Zone).
*WARNING: Be aware that you will be viewing that HTML-formatted e-mail
with far less restrictions which means you are more
vulnerable to its content.

Also see: http://www.slipstick.com/mail1/blocked.htm


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