Windows 10: Turn On or Off Download External Content in Windows 10 Mail app

How to: Turn On or Off Download External Content in Windows 10 Mail app

Turn On or Off Automatically Download External Content in Mail app in Windows 10


The Mail and Calendar apps included with Windows 10 help you stay up to date on your email, manage your schedule and stay in touch with people you care about the most. Designed for both work and home, these apps help you communicate quickly and focus on whats important across all your accounts. Supports Office 365, Exchange, Outlook.com, Gmail, Yahoo! and other popular accounts.

Starting in Windows 10 build 10547, you can now turn on or off to automatically download external images and style formats for email in the Mail app.

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off automatically download external images and style formats in email for accounts in the Mail app for your account in Windows 10.



Here's How:

1. Open the Mail app.

2. Click/tap on the Settings icon at the bottom left, and click/tap on Reading pane in the Settings flyout. (see screenshot below)



3. In the Reading pane flyout under External content, select a specific email account (ex: Outlook) you want to turn on or off automatically download external content for, or check Apply to all accounts if you like. (see screenshot below)



4. Under External content, turn on (default) or off to Automatically download external images and style formats except S/MIME Mail and Automatically download external images and style formats for S/MIME Mail for what you want. (see screenshot below)



5. When finished, you can close the Mail app if you like.


That's it,
Shawn


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Defender keeps finding the same "Trojan downloader"

As above;
the location
microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3d8bbwe\
suggests the file is being downloaded by one of the Windows Communications or Store Apps.

When you check for mail, at least make sure there are no remnants of old emails left in your Junk/Spam/Deleted Folders.

If you are using the Windows Mail or Calendar App try disabling "Automatically Download External Content" to see if it makes any difference:

Turn On or Off Download External Content in Windows 10 Mail app | Windows 10 Tutorials

 

Windows 10 mail automatically downloads images

Hello,

I understand that the images are automatically downloaded in Windows Mail. We will help you.

I suggest you to follow the below steps and check if the issue resolves.

• Open Windows Mail App.
• Click on the Gear Icon/ Settings on the left bottom.
• Select Reading in the right corner.
• Turn Off Automatically download external images and Style Fonts.
• Restart the Application and check if the issue resolves.

Please post to us with more information to help you better.

 

Mail app will not open on 10041.


Hello Adam,

This is the suggested solution below if you haven't already tried it.

In this Windows 10 build 10041, the Mail, Calendar, and People apps may be broken due to a licensing issue with the Store Beta. To get these apps working again, you need to follow these steps:

• Open powershell as administrator
• Run the command Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –like “*windowscommunicationsapps*”} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage –online
• Re-install Mail, People and Calendar from the Store (green tile)

 

Windows 10 Mail App Won't Forward Embedded Images In Emails

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community. Let me assist you.

I suggest you to turn on the feature called Automatically download external images and style format and check if it helps.

To turn on the feature called “Automatically download external images and style format”, please follow the steps below:

• Go to the Windows 10 Mail app.
• 2. Go to settings, the gear icon present at the bottom rig
• From the screen that slides out select Option.
• Under options go to external content and turn the feature
  On.

If issue persists, try Method 2,

Method 2: Run the app troubleshooter and check if it helps to resolve the issue

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/run-the-troubleshooter-for-windows-apps

Hope this information is helpful. Please do let us know if you need further assistance, we’ll be glad to assist you.

 

Windows 10 Mail App Won't Forward Embedded Images In Emails

Thanks for the information. However, neither method solved the problem. Method 1 showed that external content was already on and method 2 troubleshooter did not find any problems. Need more suggestions