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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Sending Images to Windows Users (and AOL)
Date: 20 Dec 2013 18:59:50 GMT
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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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