No pictures in the text, please!

[Brownlow]

I use Outlook Express and, despite unticking the 'Send pictures with message' box, the picture attachments still appear in the body of the message. How can I stop this?

[A.Guest]

When composing your email, click on Insert at the top of page and then click on File Attachment NOT Picture

[Brownlow]

The picture isn't in the message that I send, it appears when it goes into the 'Outbox'.
I'm sendin it as an attachment, but it's still appearing in the body of the message, as well.

[wildwood]

If you have MS Office, Outlook will send it without an image in the body.

If you wanna stick with outlook Express..... one way would be to stick the image(s) in a folder and zip(compress) the folder. Then send the folder as an attachment and, walla! No Image in the text body.

Another way is to change the extension of the image from ,jpg (or .bmp, gif) to anything you like - such as image.abc OE will not recognise this as an image and sent it as an attachment only, but the recipient has to be aware of this and be able to change the extension back to whatever.


btw, just because the mail arrives with the image as an attachment and in the text body does not mean that the mail is nearly double in size, the image is only send once.

[Brownlow]

Thanks wildwood,
The problem with allowing the picture to go in the body is that it is often very large, which means that it does take a lot longer to send. It doesn't always happen; so, I'll have to keep a check on what sort of picture it is.

[ianmunt]

Could be you are set up to send in HTML format as opposed to plain text??

[Brownlow]

Eureka! Ianmunt, I think you may have something there! I'll have to check that out. Thanks, very much.