Thank you for being a valued part of the CNET community. As of December 1, 2020, the forums are in read-only format. In early 2021, CNET Forums will no longer be available. We are grateful for the participation and advice you have provided to one another over the years.

Thanks,

CNET Support

General discussion

Outlook 2003-Picture in email also sent as attachment

Apr 1, 2010 1:53AM PDT

I am using Outlook 2003. My email editor is Word 2003 and I use the HTML format option for emails. When I insert a picture in the body of an email message, the sent email shows the picture in the message but also has an "image001.jpg" file attached to the sent email. How do I stop Outlook 2003 from adding this image attachment to the sent email?

Discussion is locked

- Collapse -
Anti-virus?
Apr 1, 2010 6:13AM PDT

That may be an effect of any anti-virus that checks incoming and outgoing emails.

It may be that anti-virus scanners rip images and such out of emails to scan them, then add them back as attachments.

Mark

- Collapse -
Pictures in Email
Apr 2, 2010 1:13AM PDT

Thanks!

- Collapse -
Re: picture in Outlook
Apr 1, 2010 6:30AM PDT

Emails are text, either plain text or rtf text or html text. Pictures are attachments.

But in at least one of the 3 variants (might even be 2 of them) Outlook 'knows' where you meant to insert the picture. So it shows it there for your convenience. There's not a single reason to believe that the receiver will see it on that same location if he doesn't have the same version of Outlook or (even worse) another email-program. Luckily, he can always open the attachment!

Without attachment, the receiver would not see the picture. So - whatever you want - it's NOT to send the mail without attachment.

Kees