Preview pane doesn't display external CSS in HTML mail

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In Outlook 2003 the preview pane will not render an HTML email with an
embeded CSS link in it properly. When I forward the email, it renders
properly. The emails were SMTP emails. This feature worked fine in Outlook
2000.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

This makes sense when you realize that Outlook 2003 by default blocks all
external content when reading messages. It does, however, download the
external content when you print or forward a message.