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[Outlook]  Stopping Outlook from Embedding Images in HTML Documents

Asked by CE101 in Outlook Groupware Software, Web Images, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

Applications:  Outlook 2002 (10.2627.2625), MS Office XP
O/S:           Windows 2000 Professional, SPK 4  

I have an email flyer that I would like to send out using Outlook, however Outlook seems to add some baggage making it heavier (in KB) than desired and I am wondering how this can be avoided.

The flyer was designed to be light weight. Although it's rich in graphics, the actual HTML file is only 6KB because all the images are external references. However when I bring it into Outlook it becomes 64KB.

So I am wondering if I am bringing it into Outlook in the wrong way???
Here are the steps I employ to get the flyer into Outlook...
(1) IE:                   Open the HTML doc  
(2) IE:                   Select all  .....   CopyToPasteboard              
(3) Outlook:          File/New/MailMessage     ....  Format/HTML   (this creates a new draft in html format)
(4) Outlook:          Paste from Pasteboard

When I open the Outlook HTML document with ViewSource I can see that a lot of extra code has been added.
For example, the following new code appears near the top of the document
@font-face
      {font-family:Wingdings;
      panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;}
@font-face
      {font-family:Wingdings;
      panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;}
 
Most troubling however is that all the images have been embedded into the doc.

Whereas the original code referencing an image used to look like this....
<img border=0 width=600 height=180
src="http://0.0.0.0/..../Email-Flyer/header.jpg">
 
Now the code looks like this...
<img border=0 width=600 height=180 id="Picture_x0020_1"
  src="cid:image001.jpg@01CA5217.B7934D50"
  alt="http://0.0.0.0/..../Email-Flyer/header.jpg">

I googled around and found that "cid" stands for "Content ID" and it means the image is embedded.

QUESTION...
(1) Am I bringing it into Outlook in the wrong way?
(2) How do I stop these CIDs from taking hold?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  

Gary
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