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How can I forward a email with attachments included in Mail?

Aug 30, 2005 9:12PM PDT

Can anyone please help me? I don't want to save the attachments and add them again.

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just tried and...
Aug 30, 2005 9:40PM PDT

...the forwarded message included the attachment, so it's definitely possible. Sorry I'm not a techie, just passing on this info - maybe it's a preference? hope it helps

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Attachments
Aug 30, 2005 9:49PM PDT

If you are asking how to send attachments in Mail then just click on the paper clip icon and attach the file to the email.
If you are asking how to make an attachment so that the reader can see the pictures "inside" the email: that is a function of the receiving email client and has nothing to do with the way you send them. It has everything to do with how the receiving client handles files when they are attachments.

Hope this helps

P

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The problem is not solved. Sorry, I forgot some details.
Aug 30, 2005 9:53PM PDT

Usually, the attachments are included in the forward message. But when they are images copied from the internet (instead of clicking "add attachments"), the images becomes blue squares with question marks.

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Blue Squares?
Aug 31, 2005 2:07PM PDT

How about the usual box at the top left-hand corner with a red X through it. Corrupt files? Improperly sent image files?

-Kevin

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Ahhh, that explains it. (Maybe)
Aug 31, 2005 9:49PM PDT

I think what you have here is an email that contains embedded HTML links to an Internet site.
This is where the images are stored and when the email is opened, the images are downloaded from the original website. However, they are only downloaded IF the receiving party has the option to download images, turned on.
The problem with forwarding emails that contain links like that is that the links almost always break. Hence the squares where the images should be.
I have the same problem if I forward stuff that I receive from MacMall.
If this is the problem, I'm not sure how you would get around it.
If I read your post correctly, these images that are "copied from the internet" seem to fall into the category mentioned above.
Are we getting close to what you are trying to explain?

P

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Thanks for all your help!
Aug 31, 2005 10:42PM PDT

I understand the problem now. Thanks for the help of all of you especially mrmacfixit. I feel glad to have discovered such a good forum with manying people willing to help. Happy

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Forward attachments
Aug 31, 2005 1:57PM PDT

Next time you send out an attachment to someone, list your email also and send yourself an email. You will have it and be able to send to others. I will be saved to in-coming email.
Learned that from the tech group at Adelphia.net.
Simple and it works. Try it and post back to us.

-Kevin

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IT will be saved to in-coming email.
Aug 31, 2005 2:01PM PDT

Typo. Or, maybe I will be saved to incoming mail sounds better?

-Kevin

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Maybe I didn't explain it clearly. Please read this message.
Aug 31, 2005 4:42PM PDT

1. Blue squares are added to the original positions of the images automatically. I can still see the red button with an "X" and it has no relation to my problem.

2. What I need to do is to forward an email sent to me by someone instead of to foward an email composed by myself.

Can anyone please help me to solve the problem?
Thanks a lot.

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Just tried it from your description
Sep 1, 2005 1:44AM PDT

I took an e-mail someone sent me that had images attached and it forwarded to another address of mine no problem. Images were still attached.

Then I took an e-mail message someone sent to me that had HTML code linking to images on a web server. In this case, the size of the e-mail is smaller because it does not contain the images. Instead it contains the html code so the e-mail client that reads the e-mail on the other end knows where on the internet to find the images.
I forwarded it to my other address, and it also came through fine.

If you go to your mail prefs and click on the "viewing" tab, there is an option to turn off (or on in your case) loading of remote images. This should solve the problem if you are the one who can't see the images. If it is someone else, they will have to turn the option on in their e-mail client..

There is another reason why the images might not come through. If the reader of the message downloads their mail and then tries to read the message after closing their internet connection (off line), they will see blue boxes. The pictures are on the internet, not attached to the e-mail.

No internet connection, no picture.

This type of e-mail is mostly used for mass mailing thousands of people. The reason is that when they send say 1000 e-mails, 900 of them never get opened. If they attached 500K of graphics to every e-mail, they would have used 450 megs of bandwidth that just got thrown in the trash. This way they only need to pay for 500K of bandwidth on each of the 100 e-mails that got opened.

Why is there an option to turn off remote images?
Another reason they do it is that when your e-mail client goes to their server to get the images, they get information about you, same as if you had visited their website. You may not buy the product, but that information is worth money to them when they sell the list with your e-mail address and IP address on it.

A third reason is that they can change the content of the e-mail after they send it, by changing the pictures on their server, either to target the pictures according to who opens the e-mail, or to change the advertising over time as their marketing - sales - inventory changes.

Or maybe it's just broke.

Pete, Kevin, you said it already, but I thought I'd take a shot.


Lampie

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How in the worl did you become so smart?
Sep 2, 2005 2:23PM PDT

Lampie, nice post. Who knew that?

Off Subject: Figure a way to send me email without me posting it. What ever happened to the CNET (see profile) that would show: Send this member an email or something to that effect. Now, we have a green backround and no place for me to send you email. What gives with this new interface with CNET??
Please explain on how we can send an email to members?
Thanks,

-Kevin

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Lampie
Sep 4, 2005 3:14PM PDT

Still waiting for your post back. Please keep it KISS.
-Kevin

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Crown Royal?
Sep 5, 2005 10:07AM PDT

I don't know about smart, considering all the dumb things I do, (just ask my girlfriend).

I know about things I've had experience with, and sometimes I can apply that knowledge to other areas. I have a little experience running websites, which is where I learned about the value of keeping ad graphics and banners on your own server.

Lampie

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Addressing to self
Sep 1, 2005 12:43AM PDT

doesn't you email client save all outgoing emails in the Sent Items folder?
I'm assuming that you are now using an email client for your emails
Seems to be a waste of storage space to save your emails, and their attachments, twice.

Just wondered

P

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Addressing to self
Sep 1, 2005 4:32PM PDT

Peter, You are right. I also have mail that is saved as mail sent.
The reason I suggested sending yourself a message was from the Adelphia group to see if my email was working from day one. Sent out as a TEST. Came back and worked. If the original poster did not know where his attachment came from, than sending an email back to himself would contain the original file attachment. Thus, he could send out the file again or download it from his email that he received.
Seems a long way around it though. Why not just keep track of your files in the first place. File management lesson #1. Filing Cabinet/Folders/Sub-Folders that contain all those files.
May take a minute or two to find it at first. Better than looking at thousands of images on you desk top.

-Kevin

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A std. reason and it's solution
Sep 29, 2010 3:38AM PDT

You got a forwarded message where the sender just forwarded it, and a previous sender inserted the attachment. YOU forward it, but in this new message YOU DELETE FORM THE MAIL BODY the section the original sender wrote (who inserted the attachment), the attachment will be also deleted.
Good luck.