"Michael J. Mahon" wrote:
>> tokolosh wrote:
>
>>> > I have tried to send a number of photos by attaching them to an
email. These
>>> > photos are in jpg format and are not large averaging about 600Kb.
>>> >
>>> > When the recipient attempts to open an attached file the photo
does not open
>>> > but instead gets tens of pages of unintelligible text.
>>> >
>>> > The same applies whether I attach one photo or a number of photos.
>>> >
>>> > I am aware that one can configure Outlook Express to break up
large messages
>>> > and I have also tried this to no avail -photos don't show but
hundreds of
>>> > pages of the unintelligible text appear.
>>> >
>>> > I don't have a clue as what is happening. What used to be a
simple thing of
>>> > attaching a photo to an email is now , to me anyway, a
catastrophe beyond my
>>> > understanding.
>>> >
>>> > I would appreciate some help
>
>>
>> It sounds like your recipient's mail reader is not configured to
>> understand MIME-encoded files, nor to associate a JPEG file type
>> with an image viewer.
>>
>> Can he receive photos from other senders?
Yes, he can receive photos from other senders. He was receiving photos
from
me without problems until I decided to attach about 10MB of photos in one
email but not before configuring Outlook Express to break up messages over
500KB. It does appear that this large transmittal initiated the present
problem
>>
>> Can other receivers receive photos from you?
Normally yes. But I haven't dared to try a large transmittal for fear of
the
same thing happening.
>>
>> -michael
Thank you for your response Michael.
Yes, the recipient can receive photos from other senders without any
problems.
Yes, other receivers can receive photos from me but I haven't dared to try
transmitting large filesin case the same thing happens again.
======================
There was a problem with quoting your reply, so my apologies for the
appearance...
It sounds like the problem only arises when you use Outlook Express to
break up large attachments into multiple messages.
I've never done this, and I would not be surprised if any mail reader
other than Outlook Express had problems with it. I'm not aware of any
*standard* protocol for dealing with email attachments in this way.
The safest way to proceed when sending attachments to a recipient with
a small email size limit is to send separate messages, each with some
number of *complete* files whose total size is still under the limit.
A couple of observations: all but "free" email accounts will have
message size limits that are at least several megabytes, and many will
have limits over 10MB, so this problem doesn't arise often--*unless* you
are sending videos or multiple large-sized photos.
If this is the case--that you need to send more than 10MB of files--the
best way is to upload the files to a web site (many ISP's already supply
FTP file space to their users) and send a URL to the site to those you
wish to receive the files. This has the advantage that the files are
only uploaded once, and any number of recipients can download them
easily, without being subject to email message size limits.
In summary, the best way to solve this problem is to avoid creating
it in the first place. ;-) Restrict your attachments to sizes that
your recipients can accept, containing complete files, or upload your
larger attachments to a web or FTP site and send a link to your
recipients, so they can get them on their own.
-michael
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