How do I send pictures in windows mail? Even cut and pasting?

[Tom Koch]

Unbelieveable! Unless I'm misunderstanding you, you are advocating the
turning off of someone's email anti-virus scanner in order that the
Windows Mail programme will operate properly??????

Why not? Email scanning is completely unnecessary on a client machine if
there is also a system-wide backgound scan. Every AV scanner I've ever seen
includes by default a background system scan, so email scanning is
superfluous. I even wrote about it for Microsoft's web site for Outlook
Express:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx#EOAAC

The workings of the temp folders is still the same in Vista and Vista Mail.
An attachment must first be saved to disk and *opened* before it can infect,
and the act of *opening* the saved file will be blocked by your AV system
scan. If that doesn't block the virus there, it won't block in email
scanning either. Email scanning is completely superfluous, as I said.

I really wonder how it is that MS can put out a programme, force it upon
their "valued" customers when it's not even operating properly...

No one is forcing anyone to use windows Mail, or Outlook Express, or
anything else for that matter. Maybe *your* boss is forcing you to use
something, but that is not MS's fault.

I may be over-reacting here, but I really don't think so.

I think you are a little bit. But hey, I don't mind. I do that myself
sometimes.

Just how "valued" does that make all you MS customers out there
feel? I know it's made me hopping mad.

Oh please. No customer is valued by Microsoft unless you bring several
thousand users with you. I certainly don't, and probably neither do you or
you wouldn't be posting here.

And, btw, I'm running McAfee, the anti-virus programme that was sold
with the computer and loaded by Dell, who also loaded Vista...

Good old McAfee... the lamest antivirus of them all that managed to convince
some dumb tech reporters years ago that its product was superior solely
because it could identify *which* virus it found. That opened the door for
the endless addiction to "signature updates" and pretty much stopped
heuristic development for 10 years.

No self-respecting computer user should ever use McAfee if you know the
history. Sadly few remain who do know it.

did Vista
not tell Dell the correct anti-virus programme to use?

No. Microsoft does not tell Dell which AV it should include. That would be a
gross violation of its monopoly power.

This is a top of the line very powerful computer that should actually
run on its own -- but at least not cause me many many hours just trying
to figure out how to operate it. They're called "PC"s for a reason... if
they were "TC"s (for techie computer) it may be different, but personal
computers are for the person to run with average knowledge, not the sort
of technical knowledge suggested in many parts of this newsgroup.

Dream on. They are computers, not toasters. Do you know how many people
can't even program their old VCRs? The computer is without a doubt the most
powerful tool ever invented by humans. To expect that you should be able to
sit down and use one effectively with no training is simply absurd. One
can't even work a power saw without *some* instruction, and a computer is
much more jpowerful and potentially more dangerous.

the very fact that MS has to set up a newsgroup for their mail programme
alone, a newsgroup that receives a multitude of messages daily, should be
some indication that the programme should never have been released when
it was!

Nonsense. There are newsgroups set up for almost everything and anything.
That says nothing about the thing itself other than the fact that at least
one person thought a group was needed.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

It is obvious that you haven't bothered to read the article at the
URL link I included. Do a little research on how the various modules
of an antivirus work,and you will understand the difference between
real-time scanning of files and email scanning. Symantec (Norton),
the originator of the email scanning concept, admits that it is
redundant (unnecessary): http://tinyurl.com/bhsva
The bottom line is that you should have a little faith in the
seasoned recommendations of responders who have been providing
support in this forum for the past two years.

I stand by my previous recommendations. There are plenty of
antivirus programs that are fully compatible with Windows Mail.
The fact that Norton and McAfee programmers often don't quite
get it right is well known among tech support specialists.

 

[Jim]

I have tried inserting a .jpg from my hard drive, tried attaching, and all I
get when I look in the sent folder is the RED X!! Damn I hate Vista. My old
computer died and I had to buy a new one. VISTA SUCKS!

 

[Jim]

THIS DOES NOT WORK!

You cannot cut and paste images into OE. You have to specify a filename.
So use Insert | Picture and designate an image file.

steve

 

[Jim]

Did that. DOES NOT WORK!

Under Tools | Options | Send | HTML Settings make sure send pictures with
messages is checked.

steve

 

[Jim]

Tried that. DOES NOT WORK!

YES YES YES - between advice from Steve & Gary, I solved it. I'm almost
afraid to say what I did for fear of undoing it.

Here you go -
tools
options
security - here you want to UNCHECK "Block images and other external content
in HTML e-mail"
click Apply
OK

That fixed it for me. Hope it sticks.
Susan

 

[Jan]

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ratty