Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: evolution

Using Evolution 2.28.0-0ubuntu4 in Karmic on 16/10/9

Steps to reproduce:
-------------------------
Compose a new email, make sure the type is set to HTML.  In the body type:
"Hello

Goodbye"

On the blank line go to Insert and Images and select any image
(preferably JPG or PNG, with no spaces in the filename or path).  In my
case the file the file was dot0.jpg.  Send the email.

Expected result:
--------------------
Recipient sees Image inline.

Actual result:
-----------------
Image is not in the message as it wasn't sent as part of the email.  If you go 
into the Sent folder and look at the source of the email you will see the 
following:

--=-8CEnx4CokdqB8sI3Kewb
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Hello

Goodbye


--=-8CEnx4CokdqB8sI3Kewb
Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
  <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8">
  <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.28.0">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Hello<BR>
<IMG SRC="" ALIGN="bottom" BORDER="0"><BR>
Goodbye<BR>
<BR>
</BODY>
</HTML>

--=-8CEnx4CokdqB8sI3Kewb--

The image holder is tagged like an external image but there is nothing in the 
source field.  For emails sent from Gmail you would see something like 
src="cid:ii_12457b63379b47d9" and then an additional part of the email to 
encode the image with the same content-id (i.e. --0016e6d566adb835cc0475f6a2b9  
Content-Type: image/png; name="dots_black.png"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64  Content-ID: <ii_12457b63379b47d9>  
X-Attachment-Id: ii_12457b63379b47d9)

In actual fact the email doesn't even have to go externally.  If you
alter your smtp settings so it will fail to send then you can view the
source in your outbox and it will be missing the image info.

Surely being able to insert an image is a basic feature that should have
been working years ago?

BTW I have verified this on a two different machines and a variety of
new and old user accounts.

** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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inline images do not go out when sending emails in evolution
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/452874
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