HyperLinking PNG images to open/download into an Outlook e-mail body

Question

I have some customized PNG images in HTML pages. I want to Hyperlink these images in a way that when clicked they should download as a .MSG file. That is, it should give the option of opening in an Outlook email body straight away. I'm not sure how to go about this. Whether I need to convert the PNG images to MSG files somehow. Any advice would be appreciated.

As a background, the HTML files are currently heavy on JavaScript that is used to customize the images by the user. The customized images can be saved as a PNG image by the user by right clicking the image and saving. I have avoided 'download' attribute because of its inconsistent support across browsers.

What I want is for the user to be able to load the final customized image to his/her email straight away.

Answer 1

Outlook will not let you run any scripts of navigate in the HTML body of an email. All navigation will be redirected to an external browser.