If you were able to see your email store on the server using a command line and open the email using a text editor you would see the email headers (to:, from:, subject, etc), plus the body plus the attachments presented in ascii. There is no magical flags in the email format that dictates whether or not the mail client will present it as an attachment or embedded into the body of the email.
What does dictate it is twofold. Firstly whether or not the client supports displaying the attachment inline and secondly whether or not there is an application registered on the system that can be used to present the attachment. The reason that zipping it works is because there is no application registered that is capable of uncompressing the file and displaying the contents. Similarly if someone sent an Excel file and you don't have Excel installed it will also show as an attachment. Your windows friends will be in exactly the same boat, although they do have a setting in Outlook to turn off viewing attachments automatically (it is a security risk leaving it on anyways as Spammers often embed html images from remote servers into an email with the image having a name that is unique so when that image is viewed in your mail client the Spammer knows that your email account is valid) Adam. > -----Original Message----- > From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan > Hastings > Sent: Sunday, 16 December 2007 6:53 AM > To: WAMUG Mailing List > Subject: Re: Embedded Images ?? > > Well, with that little program installed, I was able to send and > receive a document as an icon on both a Windows and my Mac. Maybe the > other person needs to have the program installed to change their Mail > program as well. > > > > > > On 15/12/2007, at 10:57 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: > > > This is interesting. > > > > I just send an email with an image attachment using Entourage > > (instead of Mail). > > I downloaded it using Mail and the image is embedded. > > > > I then sent another one using Entourage. > > I downloaded it using Entourage this time. > > The image is still embedded. > > > > So it appears that this is not restricted to just Mail. > > > > So is this the result of a setting in OSX rather than in the email > > application ? > > > > Regards, > > Stephen Chape > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
