Letterhead images on outbound e-mail

When one of our customers receives e-mail from my users, there are images from the letterhead attached to the bottom of the e-mail - image001.gif, graycol.gif, etc. At times the entire e-mail is included in an attachment, but the text is not printed in the body of the message (you have to open the attachment to read the e-mail).

My understanding is that this happens because we are sending out e-mail in “plain text and HTML” format and they can’t read the HTML format. However, I still don’t understand why sometimes the text isn’t included in the body of the message. Shouldn’t they just see the plain text, then?

Our servers are version 6.5.1 and our clients are a mix of version 6.5.1 and version 5.10. Since I can’t reproduce this problem with any other recipients, I’m having trouble isolating the extent of it. Is there something related to using a 5.10 client on a 6.5.1 server that could cause this? Is there some sort of setting that I can use to prevent the extra graphics from being attached to the e-mail? (They are using the regular letterheads included with Notes - nothing custom.)

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Subject: re: Letterhead images on outbound e-mail

We are having the same issue but it seems to be only happening when the recipient is an Apple Mac. Unfortunately, I’m not sure of the external Mac mail setup (i.e. versions, mail server, clients, settings, etc.).

The ‘only’ happening with Macs is a guess - since we’ve only received one comment on this and they happen to be using a mac. I do not see this problem when I use Outlook/Outlook Express or web based systems (yahoo/gmail/hotmail/etc.)

Out of curiosity - is this happening to you when you are using other systems - i.e. Windows Based, Web Based and/or Linux Based?