Another computer question! (KMA, Teddy KGB, anyone?)

TJBELL

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Why is it when I send an email with pictures, all the people get are red x's and NO pictures???

Please explain in 4th grade english. I am slow as far as computer knowledge.

THANKS!!!!!! ;)
 

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Recipient's Mail Supports HTML, but Message Arrives Without Formatting or Pictures
One of the following might have occurred:

On the way to the recipient, your message might have been routed through an e-mail server that doesn't support formatted messages. Check with your e-mail system administrator about using the HTML message format.
After you created the initial message in HTML, you changed the message format, or you created the message in another format and then clicked HTML on the Format menu before sending.
If a picture is missing, it might be because it wasn't actually stored in your message. Instead, it might be stored on the Internet and appears in the message because of a reference to the picture's location. If your recipient doesn't have access to the Internet, the picture won't appear. By default, Outlook sends a copy of the picture with the message, but you may have changed the default to send the reference to the picture instead. You can resend the message with a copy of the picture. In your Sent Items folder, open the sent message. On the Format menu, click Send Pictures from the Internet. On the Actions menu, click Resend This Message.



To prevent this from happening in the future, reset the default to always add a copy of a picture from the Internet instead of adding a reference to its location. From the main Outlook window, on the Tools menu, click Options. Click the Mail Format tab, and then click Internet Format. Under HTML options, select the When an HTML message contains a picture located on the Internet, send a copy of the picture instead of the reference to its location check box.
 

TJBELL

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Hogman: Got to where it says this:

Click the Mail Format tab, and then click Internet Format. Under HTML options, select the When an HTML message contains a picture located on the Internet, send a copy of the picture instead of the reference to its location check box.

Didn't find the mail format tab.

Thanks!!!
 

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Do they have file extensions on them???
jpg, gif or bmp??? If not, that could be the problem.

How do you have the picture saved??? In what format??? If you've saved it in the "raw" format of your image editins software (ie: filename.psp in PaintShopPro), the person on the other end will not be able to view it. Choose "save as" and save as either .gif or .jpg. I save most things as .jpg; they're smaller and retain color depth that a .gif sometimes won't, bmps are HUGE, avoid them.
 
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TJBELL

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All I know is that I get lots of emails and some I forward and people say they can't see them (pictures). They just get that red x

How do I have the picture saved?? I HAVE NO CLUE!!!

Need step by step help. ??????
 

KMA

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You're saving the pics to your hardrive before forwarding the mail right??? The easiest way I can tell you to do this is to save the photo or file you want to send to your friends to your hard drive. Create a special folder and name it something that is appropriate, e-mail stuff, whatever. Then when someone sends you a picture you want to forward, then save it to that file, then follow the instructions that I previously gave you for attaching files to e-mail.

Hope this helps!!!
 

TJBELL

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You're saving the pics to your hardrive before forwarding the mail right???

NO! as soon as I look at the email (if they have pix) I just forward them and that's it!

Will try what you said. Thanks!!!!
 

KMA

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You have to save the picture to YOUR hardrive BEFORE forwarding it, then go ahead and attach it to the e-mail you are sending!!! Hope that does it for yah!!!
 

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If you got the attachment it is possibile to just forward the email, but you have to make sure the attachment is there. Anything you view is stored on your computer. In this case if you open up a picture and then close it, that picture is located on a temp directory on your machine. It won't be found by searching for the file name.

I am not real familiar with OE6 but, make sure when you forward, it should include an attachment. Try forwarding one to yourself and see what you get
 
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