Picture/text in WLM

[Panic]

I posted this in the Windows Live Mail Newsgroup but no one has responded.
Seems to be very few entries in that Newsgroup.

I used to be able to forward messages containing pictures and text as they
appeared to me. Now when I forward them the pictures don't show with the
text but are attached as a slide show. Is there any way to change that back
to what it used to be?

I have Win7 Home Premium, using WLM 2012 Build 16.4

 

[Paul]

I posted this in the Windows Live Mail Newsgroup but no one has
responded. Seems to be very few entries in that Newsgroup.

I used to be able to forward messages containing pictures and text as they
appeared to me. Now when I forward them the pictures don't show with the
text but are attached as a slide show. Is there any way to change that
back
to what it used to be?

I have Win7 Home Premium, using WLM 2012 Build 16.4

You can probably find long threads on this already.

http://windowssecrets.com/forums/sh...ows-LiveMail-2011-problem-with-pictures/page4

There is a setting in the preferences, but apparently
it doesn't deal well with all possible combinations of
composed or forwarded emails.

Paul

 

[Panic]

"Paul" wrote in message

I posted this in the Windows Live Mail Newsgroup but no one has responded.
Seems to be very few entries in that Newsgroup.

I used to be able to forward messages containing pictures and text as they
appeared to me. Now when I forward them the pictures don't show with the
text but are attached as a slide show. Is there any way to change that
back
to what it used to be?

I have Win7 Home Premium, using WLM 2012 Build 16.4

You can probably find long threads on this already.

http://windowssecrets.com/forums/sh...ows-LiveMail-2011-problem-with-pictures/page4

There is a setting in the preferences, but apparently
it doesn't deal well with all possible combinations of
composed or forwarded emails.

Paul

At your suggestion I went to Options... Mail....Send... and put a checkmark
before the last option "reply to messages using the format in which they
were sent". That seems to have done the trick. I'll monitor it for a while
and let you know. Before this I thought that option would only be for HTML
or Text formats but it seems to keep the pictures in the message oriented to
the text rather than as a slide show.

 

[..winston]

"Panic" wrote in message At your suggestion I went to Options... Mail....Send... and put a checkmark
before the last option "reply to messages using the format in which they
were sent". That seems to have done the trick. I'll monitor it for a while
and let you know. Before this I thought that option would only be for HTML
or Text formats but it seems to keep the pictures in the message oriented to
the text rather than as a slide show.
Technically the option applies to html since plain text is only capable of
supporting attachments and not viewing pictures in the body of a plain
text message.

Even with that setting enabled if pictures are embedded and linked to
an external source or forwarded multiple times the issue may still be present.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <[email protected]>, ..winston

Technically the option applies to html since plain text is only capable of
supporting attachments and not viewing pictures in the body of a plain
text message.

Actually, plain text can have embedded images. But few modern email
clients can handle them properly: most will not only present the image
as an attachment, but will also present any text following the image(s)
as another attachment(s). Most email clients don't in fact truly embed
images, whether using plain text or otherwise: what they do is put all
the images at the end of the message, with a link (often "cid:") in the
text at the point where the image is desired. Most users are unaware of
this, since their clients present the email as if the images _are_
embedded as desired.

 

[..winston]

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
Actually, plain text can have embedded images. But few modern email
clients can handle them properly: most will not only present the image
as an attachment, but will also present any text following the image(s)
as another attachment(s). Most email clients don't in fact truly embed
images, whether using plain text or otherwise: what they do is put all
the images at the end of the message, with a link (often "cid:") in the
text at the point where the image is desired. Most users are unaware of
this, since their clients present the email as if the images _are_
embedded as desired.
That's pretty much how Outlook, WLM and other email clients responds to the majority of messages with included pictures when
viewing in plain text.

While my experience is primarily with WLM, Outlook and SeaMonkey (SM) I've yet to see any route possible that provides the ability
to embed or insert a message into a plain text composition window (in those 3 clients) and would expect other Mozilla based
included email clients (like SM) to operate the same.

Good info to know, yet at this stage it may be moot since WLM (the user's client) has a long term history of known issues when
forwarding messages with embedded and/or inserted pictures (and certainly provides no options for doing either in plain text
composition mode).