I am using a program called ASP E-Mail (Persits Software) to generate a multi-part (HTML and plain text) e-mail message which is sent with IMail's SMTP server. ASP E-Mail contains a function called Quoted-Printable formatting which takes my raw HTML and plain text and formats it into standard RFC-2045 e-mail content which looks something like this:

late-1-04.jpg" WIDTH=3D"600" HEIGHT=3D"121" BORDER=3D"0"></P></CENTER>=0A=
=0A<CENTER><P><FONT FACE=3D"Arial" SIZE=3D"4"><B><I>Visits & Jobs</I></=
B></FONT></P></CENTER>=0A=0A<P><TABLE BORDER=3D"0" CELLSPACING=3D"0" CE=


The problem is, if the resulting text created by ASP E-Mail happens to contain a period at the beginning of a line of code, that period is stripped out by IMail's SMTP server for some reason. I have tested to determine that it is not ASP E-Mail removing the period, it is IMail's SMTP server.

I believe that a sole period followed by a carriage return means something specific in e-mail code, but this is not a sole period, so to my knowledge it should be treated like all other periods in the message. Here is an example of part of my e-mail code where the period was stripped out:

news/cdp?from=3Denews"><IMG SRC=3D"http://rightideas.us/bju0401/jobfair=
jpg" WIDTH=3D"162" HEIGHT=3D"162" BORDER=3D"0"></A></TD>=0A

Where it should have said jobfair.jpg it now says jobfairjpg, resulting in a "missing image" icon in the e-mail message instead of a photo. A very frustrating problem.

I have been able to get around the problem by tweaking the characters so that no periods fall on the first line of code, but that is a very inefficient solution, and I haven't always caught them all.

I have searched everywhere I can think of for discussion of anyone else having this same problem, but cannot find anything about it. Very strange, as I can't imagine I'm the only one. If anyone could help I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,
-Brad


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