Outlook Connectors - Placeholder on some inbound emails

Anonymous
2020-04-29T16:07:35+00:00

On some inbound emails I am receiving a banner above the email text that says Connectors - placeholder.  We have no idea what it is or why it's suddenly there starting this week.  Some emails have it and some don't.  Doesn't matter if they are internal company emails or external emails.

We've checked add-ins, social setting, etc and now been able to get this to go away.  It does now show up on the web or mobile, and doesn't show up in Sent messages either.

Any way to get rid of this?  It's super annoying and takes up unneeded space.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-07-23T15:03:22+00:00

    Hi George

    I have started experiencing this issue this week (23rd July 2020) and appear to have solved it using your suggested solution.  I was having the additional issue that when I clicked on the email to view it in reading pane, the email took some time to fully load, with a blue wheel circling for quite a while (presumably searching for a non-existent sender image?)

    I am using Outlook 365 on the web, not the installed version, and the route to the appropriate setting is different:

    Go to Settings (cog icon) - View all Outlook Settings - Mail

    Scroll down to Sender Image and select radio button Don't Show Sender Images

    Thank you for your help.

    Disabling sender images fixed it for me I am a 365 webmail user.  Make sure to logout and log back into webmail after making the change.

    This worked for me and a couple of others in my organization - change the Sender Image setting, log out, log back in. Thank you!

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-07-23T14:17:11+00:00

    We are also experiencing this issue last July 21.  As a workaround, open the message in a new window either by double-clicking the message or selecting "Open in new window" from the More actions (. . .) of the reading pane of the message that is showing the "connector - placeholder".

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-07-23T14:01:02+00:00

    Hi George

    I have started experiencing this issue this week (23rd July 2020) and appear to have solved it using your suggested solution.  I was having the additional issue that when I clicked on the email to view it in reading pane, the email took some time to fully load, with a blue wheel circling for quite a while (presumably searching for a non-existent sender image?)

    I am using Outlook 365 on the web, not the installed version, and the route to the appropriate setting is different:

    Go to Settings (cog icon) - View all Outlook Settings - Mail

    Scroll down to Sender Image and select radio button Don't Show Sender Images

    Thank you for your help.

    Disabling sender images fixed it for me I am a 365 webmail user.  Make sure to logout and log back into webmail after making the change.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-07-23T13:48:44+00:00

    Also have a user in my organization with the same issue.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-07-23T12:44:07+00:00

    same issue here for 2 users so far, really need a fix MS

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