To prevent it from showing up, you need to set the automatic download settings a bit more stricter.
With newsletters from upcoming web services, this is more likely to be the case but it can also happen when an email contains an excessive amount of pictures or when you have a slow connection yourself.Įven with the default settings not not automatically download pictures, you still could get this dialog. This happens when you have Outlook set to automatically download pictures from the Internet and when the web server hosting the image is slow or not available. While it is doing this, I cannot do anything in Outlook for 15-30 seconds or even a minute!
It seems to happen more frequently since Pinterest got more popular as the URL is also indicating that it is contacting I’m subscribed to various newsletters and I regularly receive a popup box when trying to open a newsletter that says “Contacting Server for Information” or simply “Contacting:” with a reference to a URL.
