Problem receiving Mac photo attachments

canarytops

tronator wrote: »

Try out Thunderbird. It manages multiple email accounts much better. If all your accounts are IMAP, then you can use Outlook and Thunderbird at the same time.

The last time I looked at Outlook, there was one default account which was used by default when composing a new email. You needed to select the other email address from a drop down list, which you forget quite regularely. In Thunderbird it uses the email account of the inbox you're in at the moment.

Thanks guys but apart from this photo "issuette" I'm comfortable with the Oulook functions that I'm using (particularly Calendar & sync with my PDA) so will stick with it for now.

chorlton

Well.. I'm from the Mac end - i don't know nothing about outlook - and agree it's pretty poor and/or wrong if outlook can't handle a bitmap - but while there *should* be a solution at the PC end, doing what I said at the Mac end will make iPhoto/Mail send the files as jpegs.

canarytops

chorlton wrote: »

Well.. I'm from the Mac end - i don't know nothing about outlook - and agree it's pretty poor and/or wrong if outlook can't handle a bitmap - but while there *should* be a solution at the PC end, doing what I said at the Mac end will make iPhoto/Mail send the files as jpegs.

I will pass this on but Outlook can handle attachments in both HTML & plain text - thanks.

weegie.geek

canarytops wrote: »

Not sure if I'm missing something here but I'm able to save any kind of file attachments from any other users from Outlook be they .jpg, .pdf or any other file type ?

Mm, i worded that badly. It'll save something that's attached unchanged, in its original format. Images in HTML formatted emails are saved as bitmaps, and there's no way to change it.

canarytops

My Mac colleague has managed to send me photos that are genuine JPGs, I think (?) the original problem was due iPhoto convberting the file to a .BMP as part of it's scaling for email functionality !

Thanks for all your help.

weegie.geek

I thought other people were able to save them as jpeg just fine?

And I find it hard to believe iPhoto would convert them to an uncompressed and much larger format for emailing. That makes no sense at all. I've read around on some forums and apparently iphoto has trouble reading .bmp so it exporting things as .bmp seems odd.

samwsmith1

weegie.geek wrote: »

I thought other people were able to save them as jpeg just fine?

And I find it hard to believe iPhoto would convert them to an uncompressed and much larger format for emailing. That makes no sense at all. I've read around on some forums and apparently iphoto has trouble reading .bmp so it exporting things as .bmp seems odd.

canarytops wrote: »

My Mac colleague has managed to send me photos that are genuine JPGs, I think (?) the original problem was due iPhoto convberting the file to a .BMP as part of it's scaling for email functionality !

Thanks for all your help.

iPhoto email's all photos as JPEGs as attachments, was it not outlook that was converting them to BMP?

weegie.geek

That's what we concluded earlier in the thread, yeah. That Outlook can't save images from HTML emails as jpeg, so saves them as .bmp.

canarytops

weegie.geek wrote: »

That's what we concluded earlier in the thread, yeah. That Outlook can't save images from HTML emails as jpeg, so saves them as .bmp.

As mentioned I've no longer got a problem however for the sake of others it is NOT true that Outlook can't save .jpg attachments as a .jpg file, it may well have problems with embedded .jpgs but from my point of view that's a different topic.

I have to concede that I don't know where the conversion to a .bmp happened (in my case) but my Mac colleague can now email me .jpgs.

Thanks once again for all your help.

weegie.geek

I just said that it can't save images from HTML emails as jpeg, and said in a previous post that it can save attachments in the original format.

Glad you've got it working.