email help!!!!!!

[Tinytine]

Could someone tell me how to attach photos to an email without them apppearing in the main body of the document in microsoft outlook express? as its driving me crazy :dizzy: lol, any information would be highly aprreciated. Thanks again :D

[degsy]

Welcome :)

Add the photos as attachments instead.

[uripyores]

Welcome to CTH,

Try this;
Click anywhere in the message window.
On the Insert menu, click File Attachment, and then find the file you want to attach.
Select the file, and then click Attach.

[oracle128]

Outlook Express automatically displays any attached image files in the body of the email - however, this only applies when you view an email in OE. If the recipient uses a different email client, they won't show up, assuming you only attached the files, and didn't insert them into the body of the email (unless their mail client also has that feature). Likewise, if there was some option in OE to disable this feature (which there isn't, as far as I know), it wouldn't make any difference to the recipient if they also use OE. You can view more info, as well as possible workarounds, here (http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_keep_attached_photos_out_of_an_emails_mes sage_body.html).

If you use OE version 5 or 5.5, you can try this registry edit (http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/faqs/how.htm#slideshow) to change this behaviour, but note that it doesn't work in OE 6 onwards.

[Tinytine]

Thank you all for your replies, but it seems that there is no way around this as Oracle128 says, at least i know now that there is nothing i can do!

[Ned Seagoon]

You could zip them up, it won't compress them, but it will mean the recipient will need to use winzip to view them.

[degsy]

but it will mean the recipient will need to use winzip to view them.Not neccessarily. Many programs can uncompress zip files, including Windows ME and XP compressed folders feature.

[oracle128]

You could also simply change the extension (as suggested in the first link I posted, along with the zip option), it doesn't rely on any external applications (or built-in OS features), but the problem is then you have to explain to the recipient they need to change the extenension back to .jpg or whatever. A lot of people also have no idea what extensions are, and extensions may be hidden on their operating system (most Windows versions hide file extensions by default). It could be more trouble than it's worth, but it depends on how much those automatically displayed images are annoying you.

Of course, the other option is to use a different email client, like Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/).