[blumoon]

I am trying to send an html newsletter. Seems some of the recipients are receiving it scrambled. To the best of my knowledge the ones who are having the problem viewing it are using Windows Mail on Vista. I have done this before Vista-and had relatively few problems, and certainly not this problem.
I have no idea how many people have even seen the newletter announcing an event I am putting on, so I want to resend. Does anyone have suggestions on how to code an html newsletter for this type of a problem? Suggestions appreciated, as I have been all over Google trying to find out what the problem is, and so far have come up empty handed. Other users of Vista have received it no problem-one I know for sure has another email client configured-she is having no problem. The ones who have received the encoded message say their email is set to allow html.
I am using Win XP Pro, thunderbird mail, firefox mostly. Thanks in advance.
Here's a sample of what people have received-and there are pages of this

/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEASABIAAD/2wBDAAUDBAQEAwUEBAQFBQUGBwwIBwcHBw8LCwkMEQ8S
EhEPERETFhwXExQaFRERGCEYGh0dHx8fExciJCIeJBweHx7/2wBDAQUFBQcGBw4ICA4eFBEU
Hh4eHh4eHh4eHh4eHh4eHh4eHh4eHh4eHh4eHh4eHh4eHh4eHh4eHh4eHh4eHh4eHh7/wAAR
CAB4Au4DASIAAhEBAxEB/8QAHQAAAAcBAQEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMEBQYHCAIBCf/EAF0QAAIB
AgUCAwUFBAUGBQ4PAAECAwQRAAUGEiEHMRNBUQgUImFxIzKBkaEVQrHwCRZSwdEXJDNy4fEl
Q2Jz0xgmN

[awatson]

Does the newsletter have graphics? I'm wondering if the gibberish is a binary image file being text-encoded.

You may have better luck by putting the newsletter on your site as a standard web page, then sending out a simple link in the email - often this is less likely to trip spam filters or show up funny in all the different email programs people use.

[blumoon]

Yes, that would probably work. I am puzzled because I never had trouble with the last event I planned. I would really like to include the images, because this mailout is for my Art Show. Seems the whole message is encoded, text and images.

Of course I am speculating as to what percentage are not receiving the information properly. Most people won't tell you, they will just not read it. So I suppose it could just defeat the purpose, so I may have to resort to simpler methods.

I do have the webpage set up, and had a link to that from the newletter-read online.
Thanks for your comments.