Attachments in message body?

[Daniel]

Why are attachments that I send and receive opening in the message body of
emails. When I receive an email with several photo's or other material as
attachments they are opening in the message body of the email and they are
very large. I have had my computer lock up during the receiving and when I
try to open one of the attachments. Computer will not free up. I have to shut
down the computer with the off button and this is not good. I have talked to
friends that I have sent photo's to and sent them to myself just to see and
they are very disgusted with this. Can't seem to find any settings to stop
this.
I am running on an E Machine-Vista Home Premium with a 62 x 2 Processor
4400+: 15 in 1 Memory Card Reader: 250G HD: 1024MB DDR2

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

I believe most email clients including Windows Mail will show any
attached JPGs at the bottom of the text. I don't know of any way to
stop that. The sender would have to zip the photos before attaching.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

As in Outlook Express before it, Windows Mail will display some graphic
attachments in a separate section underneath the message body as a
convenience to the user. If you enable the "Read all messages in plain
text" option, these attachments will not display.

PS: Ask your correspondents to drastically reduce the size of such graphic
files before attaching them, or put all of them in a ZIP file & attach that.