willoughby wrote:
I didn't tell you that i did copy and paste the pictures in my email,
i didn't give you all the details. I do know how to copy and paste,
but i was having trouble for some reason, using the other application
to copy and paste the pictures and that's what i didn't explain.
Webmail agents (which is what I presume you meant by "Verizon Yahoo")
don't let you copy-n-paste pictures into their web form. You will have
to use their Insert function, if they have one, or their attachment
function to attach the file to your e-mail rather than show it inline
with the body of your message.
Similarly, when you copy-n-paste in OE, the reference to that content
is local. When the recipient gets your e-mail, they won't have access
to your hard drive to where that pointer finds that file and why they
see the red-X. Per OE's own help and when searching on "insert" and
picking the "Insert a picture [in] a message" topic, it says:
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To insert a picture into a message
1. Click the place in the message where you want the image to appear.
2. On the Insert menu, click Picture, and then click Browse to find the
image file.
3. Enter Layout and Spacing information for the image file as needed.
Notes
- If you cannot select the Picture command, make sure HTML formatting is
turned on by clicking the Format menu in the message window and then
clicking Rich Text (HTML). A black dot appears by the command when it
is selected.
- If message recipients are not able to view your inserted images, on
the Tools menu, click Options. Click the Send tab, click HTML
Settings, and then make sure that Send pictures with messages is
selected. Then resend your message.
- To insert a background picture into your message, in the message
window, on the Format menu, point to Background, and then click
Picture. Click the Browse button to search for the file you want to
use.
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In OE, use its Insert -> Picture menu. This creates a MIME part within
the body of your message with disposition=inline. This means the
attachment is supposed to get displayed within the message when your
e-mail client renders it. Otherwise, simply attach the picture file to
your e-mail. That creates a MIME part within the body of your message
with disposition=attached. This means the attachment is not to be
displayed within the message and that the e-mail client is supposed to
somehow indicate a separate attached file, like a paper clip icon or
attachment list. For either disposition, a MIME part in your message
encodes the file into a long text string. As to how the e-mail client
is supposed to show that MIME part depends on the disposition specified
for that MIME part.
In your webmail agent for Verizon Yahoo, you only get whatever tools
they provide for attaching (inline or attached mode) that they provide.
It is likely that they only support disposition=attached so you will
need to use their function to upload your file to their server which
then gets attached to your e-mail (rather than shown inline). In my
non-ISP Yahoo Mail account, there is only the "Attach files" option.
You pasting into their web form does NOT execute any function to
convert it to the encoded text string to put it into MIME part. You've
merely put garbage data into your message that the web form can't
handle.
All e-mail, and I mean all e-mail, always gets sent as plain text for
its content. HTML-formatted e-mails are text. HTML tags are just
text. Binary attachments (inline or attached disposition) are
converted into a long string of text characters (i.e., they get encoded
into a text string) which the recipient's e-mail client must decode
back into the binary form. It's all text in the transmitted message.
Your webmail agent has no way to convert the copy-n-paste image into
the encoded text string unless they provide some Insert or other option
to add pictures within the body of the message (i.e., inline) by having
you submit the picture file and converting it to the text string in a
MIME part for that filetype. In fact, their "Attach files" option is
just that: you upload the file and they convert it to a MIME part
containing the long text string to encode that file's contents into
your message. I don't see an upload function in Yahoo Mail that lets
you insert that file's contents as inline, just the upload function to
add the file with the attached disposition (i.e., it shows separate of
the body).
