It's the mail server rejecting the message:

Server: 'mail.wildblue.net',
Server Response: '554 mail server permanently rejected message (#5.3.0)'

5.3.0

5.XXX.XXX Permanent Failure

A permanent failure is one which is not likely to be resolved
by resending the message in the current form. Some change to
the message or the destination must be made for successful
delivery.

X.3.0 Other or undefined mail system status

The destination system exists and normally accepts mail, but
something about the system has caused the generation of this
DSN.

How are you getting the news story into OE in the first place? Are you
opening OE, starting a new message or then doing a copy/paste of the
text or are you doing a Send Page from IE or something else?

You may want to record an smtp.log which will show more details about
outgoing mail.

To create an SMTP.log In OE5+, go to Tools, Options, Maintenance,
Troubleshooting, Mail
You may need to close OE after doing the send for the log to get written
to disk.
The log will be in the Store Folder which is listed in Tools, Options,
Maintenance, Store Folder.


--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Phil" wrote in message
...
Folks,

I'm a news junkie and travel for a living. When on the road I
occasionally
have a problem that I never have from home. I do my general email
from
Outlook, but because it is so easy to remove scripts from the code
sometimes
in news articles html I use Outlook Express to edit and send news
stories to
friends and family

The problem: If I send a news story with the news source's masthead
embedded
as a gif, I sometimes get an error like this:

"An unknown error has occurred. Subject '"Family renews search for
hunter's
remains" & "Remains of Texas hunter found in western Colorado"',
Account:
'Phillip xxxxxx', Server: 'mail.wildblue.net', Protocol: SMTP, Server
Response: '554 mail server permanently rejected message (#5.3.0)',
Port: 25,
Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 554, Error Number: 0x800CCC6F"

However, if I just send the article without the embedded gif, it goes
through without a problem. But wait, that's not all. LOL

If I take the very same article and copy it from the Outlook Express
note
that I have prepared, and then paste it into an Outlook note and I
re-embed
the gif (When I paste it in there's nothing but a placeholder in the
Outlook
message for some reason.); when I then hit send the Outlook copy WILL
send
with the embedded gif.

Configurations: I can see NO difference in the configuration of
Outlook
(Outlook 2003 (11.8118.8132) SP2) and Outlook Express (OE 6
(6.00.2900.2180
(xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)). Both clients are configured the same,
with "My
server requires authentication" checked and the information correctly
reflected.

Summary: Outlook WILL send with an embedded gif, OE will not.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Phil