Absolute image links in Contribute/Dreamweaver

[raviguy]

Can anyone tell me how to force Contribute to make all the image links absolute
(i.e. [url]http://www.adobe.com/images/sampleimage.jpg[/url]) in Dreamweaver.

I want to send out html emails and I spec out absolute links in Dreamweaver
but when I edit the html document in Contribute, the links get changed to
relative.

HTML emails need absolute paths. I've read that Contribute fixed this in CS3
but I just bought Contribute the other day and my links keep switching back.

HELP!?!?!?!

Thanks in advance!
Rodney

[ThinkInk]

How will you send the emails? Will you use an email-client on the client-side
or create a server-side solution?

Server-side:
I solved this Contribute problem by using PHP and str_replace.

$strMessageStrip = $_POST['message'];
$strMessageStrip2 = str_replace("../", "http://www.yourdomain.com/",
$strMessageStrip);
$strMessageStrip3 = str_replace("../images/",
"http://www.yourdomain.com/images/", $strMessageStrip2);
etc...

Client-side:
The only solution I can think of is creating Editable regions for the text and
use default image positions outside the editable regions and let your client
change the images by putting new images on the server with the same name as the
old ones.