Sending HTML email with CDONTS

Need solution for a dot eating problem while sending HTML email with ASP

[Xntec_Les]

Sometimes when I send html email with cdonts the dot in the picture name disappears. picturename.gif becomes picturenamegif - it totaly messes up the look of the page and I can't find any reason why this is happening. It only happens on some of the picture names and only sometimes. Does anybody know what causes it?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Les

[BlobFisk]

Welcome [webmasterworld.com] to WebmasterWorld, Xntec_Les!

Could you maybe post a small snippet of your code where your ASP is writing the code of the <img> tag? It may help us to find the root of the problem.

Are you setting the body format to HTML:
MailObj.Mailformat = 0
MailObj.Bodyformat = 0
This sets the MIME type to html rather than plain-text. In plain text dot's need to be escaped using "\.".

Also MailObj.Value("Content-Transfer-Encoding") = "8bit" may also help. SMTP uses "." as one of it's commands (eg: "new line dot new line" means end of data part transmission).

[Xntec_Les]

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it but it is still doing it. The name of the picture that is beeing changed is leftofbuttons.gif (changes to leftofbuttonsgif).
Below is the code I use to send the emails.
<code>
dim objCDO
Set objCDO = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")

objCDO.To =email
objCDO.From =strFrom
objCDO.Subject =strSubject
objCDO.BodyFormat =0 ' HTML
objCDO.MailFormat = 0 ' MIME
objCDO.Value("Content-Transfer-Encoding") = "8bit"
objCDO.Body = strBody
objCDO.Send
Set objCDO = Nothing
</code>

[jpjones]

Hi,

Just as a debugging aid - have you tried writing the strBody value to screen before you send out the email?

You could run the script a good few times, and then compare the output on screen to what you receive in the email.

As far as I know there are no errors in the CDONTS component - but you never know.

HTH,
JP

[Xntec_Les]

Thanks for your suggestion. I did that and since I write strBody to the SQL database I also queried it with Query Analizer. The results were OK in these two cases. This allows me to assume that there is an issue with CDONTS or SMTP.
Thanks again
Les

[BlobFisk]

Did you try escaping the "."? It could be an SMTP thing, although I can't say that I've ever seen it before.

[Xntec_Les]

"&#46;" works!
Thanks a lot - you guys are great.
Les