Writing an HTML email for a mailing list - image woes!

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I'm trying to write an HTML email for our company's internal newsletter, and am having trouble finding a way to neatly send it. I have a feeling I may have gone about this backwards - I wrote it as an html page, and am trying to send it using Outlook 2003. In hindsight, this may have been a bad idea :)

Basically it's a 10K html file with about 20K of images. When copied and pasted into Outlook, this somehow turns into a 70K email. It also changes all the images from direct links like "src=http://www.blah/blah.gif", and tries to embed the images in the email. Worse still, when viewed in some mail clients it lists all the images as separate attachments.

Is there a better way of sending it, or will I need to redesign the email somehow? Help!
 
Many thanks for all the help (and even the offer of some software!). After reading all the advice, I read up on doing it via a script. PHPmailer has made life a lot easier :)

Cheers again!
 
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