Outlook 2000/2003 won't embed pictures

[Guest]

On sending only - reeiving pictures seems to work corectly.

Within th elas two weeks embedding picures in HTML messages has staarted
failing. The sources are WS2003 Terminal Servers and WS2003 servers.

Testing has shown that the pictures appear to be embedded correctly but when
received they show a red X and are included as an attachment. This happens
not matter which ISP is used for the mail server.

The only patch installed before this started was teh MSSL MSXML 4.0 SP2
patch. Removing the patch has not helped.

Has anyone seen this?
Does anyone have any ideas for where to look next?
This is currently afflicting 100+ corporate users. They send pictures to
customers and sales offices all day. It's one of their bigger issues now.

We have tried repair on Office and I have looked at teh message structures
but see no issues.

I suspect that the immage reference:
src="cid:248274400@05112006-0d6b"
is being constructed incorrectly for some reason but don't know how to
decode this.

Help!!!

 

[George Hester]

The cid (image) is still in the e-mail? What you can do is make sure the
attachment goes along for the ride when you send out an image. I know cid
and attachment seem different but they are not. Just send a <img
src="cid..." cid HTML e-mail to yourself and make sure the size of the
e-mail looks appropriate when received. You could also write a simple VBA
function to strip out the cid. If you get nothing when you do that then you
know the cid (image) itself is being stripped out somewhere. Maybe on
Exchange? Remember alot of spam now comes with embedded images in them so
you may have an updated antivirus program as culprit.