E-mail is runing my life

[alreadypacked]

I think you do if it's a straight forward hyperlink. Never seen a link automatically activate and open a browser when opening emails.

The method they use that doesn't require any further interaction from the user apart from opening the email is to embed images linked back to their server, so they can tell which email address downloaded the images. Hence Outlook and most decent email clients supress images on any unknown sender until you tell them it's safe.

I opened a mail I didn't realise was spam in Hotmail, when I looked for the Junk mail button is was not visable for that mail

[AlfredJPruffock]

Unfortunately I dont have the time to read this as I am bit stressed - could somebody send an email link to me ?

[PAH]

I opened a mail I didn't realise was spam in Hotmail, when I looked for the Junk mail button is was not visable for that mail

Probably from Microsoft then.