When I generate an html email to send via SmtpMail, it will (apparently) randomly remove a period in the filename for some image and anchor tags, but not all

For example, in the email body, i may have an image
<img border="0" src="http://servername/filename.gif"
But it will be received in Outlook as
<img border="0" src="http://servername/filenamegif"
NOTE THE MISSING PERIOD IN THE FILENAME

The same thing can occur for an anchor tag (link). If it references "myfile.asp", it may appear as "myfileasp", again missing the period

This does not happen to all links or images. I can't figure out what the pattern is. There has been a notion that the firewall or proxy servers are performing this as a "feature", but I don't know where to look to try validate this. Help!

I've never seen this. I could be a proxy or mail server doing this, but
it's unlikely.

Have you tried URLEncode'ing the src attribute?


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> When I generate an html email to send via SmtpMail, it will (apparently)
randomly remove a period in the filename for some image and anchor tags,
but not all!

For example, in the email body, i may have an image:
<img border="0" src="http://servername/filename.gif">
But it will be received in Outlook as:
<img border="0" src="http://servername/filenamegif">
NOTE THE MISSING PERIOD IN THE FILENAME!

The same thing can occur for an anchor tag (link). If it references
"myfile.asp", it may appear as "myfileasp", again missing the period.

This does not happen to all links or images. I can't figure out what the
pattern is. There has been a notion that the firewall or proxy servers are
performing this as a "feature", but I don't know where to look to try
validate this. Help!
>

I have now tried URLEncode, but it seems that Outlook can't interpret the encoding (%2E for periods) and won't properly locate and display the image.