Issues emailing photos as attachments and the recipient receiving them in the body and not as an attachment?
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so when i send a photo or many as an attachment, whoever is getting the email will see the photos in the bdy of the email and not as the attachments they where sent as? Is there a setting that i need to switch to correct this? right now the only way to send photos is as a zip file?
July 29th, 2009 at 5:54 am
How attachments are displayed is up to the email client (recipient) not the sender.
In order to be able to view an attachment, the encoding between the sending and receiving systems must be identical. Generally speaking, your email software will automatically encode the attachment and the recipient’s software will automatically decode the file. However older email applications may not support some of encoding protocols which may include:
* MIME Encodings (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is an Internet standard for multimedia mail which allows different mail applications to exchange a variety of types of information. Most current PC Email Applications are MIME Encoding Compliant.
* No encoding does not encode the attachment at all. This can be risky to use for Internet mail and should be used only if you know that the attachment is a plain text file with no high bit characters.
* ASCII text Indicates that the file is plain text with no formatting or high-bit characters.
* UUencoding This encoding is widely on the Internet. This encoding is a good choice.
* BinHex Used with Macintosh machines but not widely used on other operating systems. Before sending an attachment, check in advance that the recipient is able to deal with BinHex-encoded files.