Beware Gmail users: Inserting images into the body of an email message can get you temporarily banned from your account.
The disconcerting bug has been affecting unsuspecting Gmail users for months, and it's apparently tied to the use of Gmail's spanking-new message-compose interface. Google introduced that interface late last year and made it the default for everybody this year, saying it's faster, simpler and altogether better than the old basic HTML interface.
Google has acknowledged the problem but hasn't been able to stamp it out.
The bug is listed in the Gmail Known Issues page and is the focus of several discussion forum threads in Google Groups, including this long one with more than 250 posts.
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