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