Viewing Image Attachment

[petermj]

A friend of mine has sent a few images to me in an email as attachments. When others send me image attachments I can right click on the file within the email to save it to my hard drive.

When THIS friend sends images from his Mac, the Inbox screen shows that there is no attachment (as in, there is no paperclip next to the email) yet the images are embedded within the email at the bottom. I can still save them to my hard drive, but I lose the original file name (which I need) and it saves as a bmp as opposed the jpg format he sent them in.

Why would this only happen with his attachments? Is it something HE is doing, or is there a setting I can change to solve this?

Please see my two example images to help you understand.

1) bad.jpg - This is showing what is happening now.

2) good.jpg - This is showing what usually happens. (what I want)

Thank you!

[P51D Mustang]

From the Help file entry "Attach a file or message to an e-mail message" :

Note If your message format is HTML or Plain Text, the attachment will appear in the Attach line below the Subject line. If your message format is Rich Text, the attachment will appear in body of the message.

That's not the end of the story however.

I use HTML emails in Outlook 2003; the Insert|File menu option adds the Atch line below the subject.

Using the Insert|Picture menu option will insert the file into the body of the message.

HTH