HTML Images Saved in Outlook Backup File

[Outlook2007UserfromColumbus]

How do I save an email with HTML that has to go to a server to get the
pictures. The message is displayed correctly on my computer when I open it.
However, when I am backing it up and this email is old and those links from
the previous email that goest to a site to get the images are no longer
available, I lose my email.

I would hope that Microsoft would have thought about this issue and has a
solution as I cannot believe that I am the only person in the world that
wants to keep an original email that was in HTML format with pictures that I
have already downloaded once, can be saved on my local machine so that I can
back it up and 2 or 3 years later when I go back to this email, I can see it
in its original content even if the server that hosted that html page with
images is no longer available.

So the question is to summarize: How to save an HTML formatted emal with
pictures that have already been downloaded once so that if the server no
longer has that html page i still can see the email in it's original format
when i restore the backup file a couple of years later or after that site is
no longer available.

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

Depends upon how the e-mail was crafted. If the sender only put LINKS to
the images into the e-mail, as opposed to the actual images, then there's
nothing you can do about it other than encourage the sender to stop doing
that. It's not Outlook's fault in that case, it can't store the images
because it only has the images as links.

Of course, a lot of web marketers like to send e-mail ads that way because
the image retrieval hits to their server give them analytics on how often
their ad is actually getting read.

If it's really important to you to preserve those old messages, and their
expired images, you could print them either to paper or maybe a PDF file.

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-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com/outlook.htm
Author: The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/ol4law-amazon

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