[Outlook] Stopping Outlook from Embedding Images in HTML Documents

Hi BlueDevilFan:

Thank you for your kind assistance.

I've done as you've suggested...
(1) Copied the HTML file to C:\Documents and Settings\...\Application Data\Microsoft\Stationery
(2) Created stationary by going to Outlook's   \Tools-menu\Options\MailFormat-tab   and doing the following...
(a) In the Compose-in-this-message format list, clicked HTML.
(b) Clicked StationeryPicker, and then clicked the document copied in Step 1.
(3) Composed new message (ie File\NewMessage)   --- the result was the HTML file as above
(4) Dragged the message from the Draft folder to the Inbox

Result:   The Inbox showed it to be 64KB, not 6KB as in the native HTML file.

Incidentally when I email the Stationary-created-version to myself it comes back as 67KB, the same size as the version created by copy-paste.    

Doing ViewSource I see that the images have not been embedded.
The code:                           src="http://0.0.0.0/..../Email-Flyer/header.jpg">
Has not been changed to    src="cid:image
The way it was changed in the copy-paste version.

So now I am baffled.
If the images are not embedded how can the document be 64KB?

Any suggestions????

Gary

Hi BlueDevilFan:

I made a mistake in my last message.
The Inbox showed it to be 63KB (not 64KB as previously reported).

I was wondering why 63.
I just realized that it's the sum of the following..
The original HTML file size:    6KB
The total size of the 8 jpg and gif files referenced in the HTML:   57KB

So clearly the images are being embedded despite the code that says ....    src="http://

So the question still remains.
How do I prevent the images from being embedded.

Any suggestions????

Gary

Hi, Gary.

Do you have Outlook set to use Word as the editor?

Hi BlueDevilFan:  

> Do you have Outlook set to
> use Word as the editor?

Originally it was not set as the editor.
However now that you ask, I have set it as the editor.
But I still get the same results -- 57KB.

Gary

Gary,

Having Word as the editor can cause a variety of problems.  I was going to recommend turning it off if you had it set as the editor.

Instead of creating a message as you described above, try doing it this way

1.  Click Actions > New Mail Message Using > More Stationery
2.  Select your HTML file

> 1.  Click Actions > New Mail Message Using > More Stationery

In my version of Outlook (vs 2002 rel 10.2627.2625) there's no "New/Mail Message/Using" item on the File menu.
The File menu only offers "New/MailMessage"

Ummm, I didn't say the File menu.  The Action menu.

From BlueDevilFan:

> Ummm, I didn't say the File menu.  The Action menu.

Sorry, I didnt realize that "New/MailMessage" is on the Action menu. I assumed you meant the File menu.

Anyways I tried "New/MailMessage" and chose my HTML file from the menu.
Then I closed it and then dragged it from the Drafts folder to the Inbox where the size is shown as 63KB (not the desired 6KB).

I just attached the HTML file in question, so that you can see for yourself what is happening...  
    EmailFlyer_HTML.txt
I changed the filetype from htm to txt, otherwise it cannot be uploaded.

Thank you for your kind help.

Gary

To BlueDevilFan:

Thanks for your thoughtful reply. Sorry for not replying sooner. I was away for a few days.

> Part of the difference in size can be accounted for by looking at the
> structure of a mail item object...  Outlook actually stores three versions
> (HTML, RTF, and plain-text) of the message body in the mail object.  
> A message will always be bigger than the HTML file it was created from

That's what I figured. That it's only in Outlook that the filesize increases.

> From the looks of it the growth in message size of your message is in  
> line with what I see with other messages.

That's very reassuring.
However I'm still curious...
When I click <send> on that 70KB Outlook message, how much actually gets transported across the Internet?
70KB or 6KB ?
I'm concerned that if my message is too large some email systems may treat it as spam.

I wonder how this can be tested.
I sent the Outlook message to my Gmail account.
However as far as I know there's no way to save an email as an HTML file in Gmail as you can in Outlook.

Any suggestions?

Gary

To BlueDevilFan and Kravimir:  

Thank you for your help on this one.
I'm going to close this case now and award the points.

BlueDevilFan wrote earlier...
> Your message does not render well when viewed in Outlook 2007.

I'm interested to see what it looks like.
Could you pls capture it as a PDF file and upload it to EE.
I've created a new case for this at
  http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Office_Productivity/Groupware/Outlook/Q_24881331.html

Thanks.

Gary