yes, Comcast is my smtp outgoing server. they disallow me to use any other outgoing routes for my email. even though I own two websites I can't use the smtp servers there for outgoing email.
the email is showing in the SENT basket of Outlook Express but it doesn't get delivered. I am pretty sure it is leaving my machine. I am not getting any bounce notifications. Just disappearing.
I am using Outlook express and I have tried a couple different methods and every time that image is in the email, it disappears. At first I was sending a newsletter, through Mailman (a newsletter program). The newsletter was not getting delivered. I thought maybe Mailman was killing it for some reason, but then I eliminated Mailman as the problem because I just sent an email directly to myself and it still didn't go through (before you think it's blocked becuase it's a self-email.. that's not it either).
Once I eliminated Mailman I experimented with sending myself emails by different ways. I used Outlook Express's HTML capabilities to send two identical emails, one with the first image and one with the second image. the code of the email looked like this:
<!----begin table box ----->
<table align="center" bgcolor="#00FFFF" width="150" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="0">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#000099"><div align="center"><strong><font color="#FFFFFF">Got stickers?</font></strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center">
<a href="http://solarbus.org/store/stickers.shtml"><img src="
" alt="" border="0" width="150"></a><br><br>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-----endtable box ----->
and it went through just fine. then I sent the same message with the only difference being the sticker referenced:
<!----begin table box ----->
<table align="center" bgcolor="#00FFFF" width="150" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="0">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#000099"><div align="center"><strong><font color="#FFFFFF">Got stickers?</font></strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center">
<a href="http://solarbus.org/store/stickers.shtml"><img src="
" alt="" border="0" width="150"></a><br><br>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-----endtable box ----->
and it just disappears.
So to be sure, I eliminated the HTML email problem somewhat by just clicking on the image button in Outlook Express and pasting in the URL to the image. same results. with other images, no problem. with that image, disappear.
In ALL cases, the images are referenced to a web URL. In no case have I tried to embed or attach the image.
??????