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Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL)

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On 2013-12-20, Matthew Lybanon <lybanon@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I use Mail.app for email.  When I send image attachments, some Windows 
> users complain that the images are "embedded" in the message body, not 
> attachments.  Searching on the Microsoft website unearthed the 
> information that, in Outlook, although image attachments APPEAR to be in 
> the message body when messages are in RTF format, they are still 
> attachments.  And Microsoft gives detailed instructions on how to get 
> those image attachments.
>
> Sometimes those detailed instructions don't help.  With some people, if 
> they can't get the images in the way they are accustomed to, NOTHING you 
> (or MIcrosoft) tell them makes any difference.  So I have learned to 
> choose Make Plain Text from Mail.app's Format menu, I always check the 
> Send Windows-Friendly Attachments box, and I choose Insert Attachments 
> at End of Message in Edit menu/Attachments.
>
> But even so, recently a Windows user who has AOL told me that "I got the 
> images in the body of the email, but did not get any attachments."  Does 
> anyone have any insight into this problem, and (even better) suggestions 
> about how to deal with it?

IMO, it's not your responsibility to make other people understand how their
computer / operating system works.

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Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) Matthew Lybanon <lybanon@earthlink.net> - 2013-12-20 12:39 -0600
  Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-12-20 18:59 +0000
    Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2013-12-20 22:18 -0800
  Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-20 14:17 -0500
    Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-12-20 14:53 -0500
      Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) Matthew Lybanon <lybanon@earthlink.net> - 2013-12-20 16:11 -0600
        Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-12-20 17:27 -0500
          Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) Matthew Lybanon <lybanon@earthlink.net> - 2013-12-21 10:40 -0600
            Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2013-12-21 10:59 -0800
              Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-12-21 16:18 -0500
              Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) Matthew Lybanon <lybanon@earthlink.net> - 2013-12-22 10:25 -0600
                Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-22 14:02 -0500
                Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-12-22 23:10 -0500
                Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-12-22 20:44 -0800
                Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-22 23:32 +0000
                Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2013-12-23 11:38 +1100
              Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) Wes Groleau <Usenet@Grolea.us> - 2013-12-23 00:36 -0500
        Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2013-12-21 10:33 +1100
        Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) Wes Groleau <Usenet@Grolea.us> - 2013-12-20 21:28 -0500
          Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) Wes Groleau <Usenet@Grolea.us> - 2013-12-20 21:33 -0500
            Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2013-12-21 20:45 +1100
    Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2013-12-21 09:26 +1100
  Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2013-12-20 21:30 +0000
    Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2013-12-21 09:20 +1100
    Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-12-20 17:23 -0500
    Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-20 17:26 -0500
      Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2013-12-22 02:43 +0000
    Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2013-12-20 22:27 +0000
      Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-20 18:40 -0500
        Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2013-12-21 02:24 +0000
      Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-21 06:02 +0000
    Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) Wes Groleau <Usenet@Grolea.us> - 2013-12-20 21:43 -0500
      Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-12-20 20:24 -0700
  Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL) Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-12-20 21:03 -0800

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