Excessive e-mail size for just text - huge!

[JGreg7]

When using Outlook 2000, writing a simple e-mail in HTML
format, with a few colors of text, once sent the e-mail
file size becomes either 32MB or 44MB in size.

When the text is cut and pasted into Word, the file size
is very small (~15-25kb), when re-pasted into a new e-
mail, the size increases again.

What is happening?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

is it 32 or 44 MB (megs) or 32 KB?

if it's megs, some thing is seriously wrong... if it's KB, check the setting
in tools, options, general, email, general. Set it to strip html to be the
smallest (High) - not totally sure 2000 has the option though.

However - keep in mind text pasted into word and saved as a doc is not HTML,
you'll need to save it as HTML to check the file size.

Also - messages contain some overhead, especially in the PST, so any text
will be larger in a message than a simple html file.

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