Lost pictures

I forwarded an email with a picture only to be told that the picture did
not travel and only the text arrived. I tried forwarding it to myself and
sure enough no picture.
I don't know how many times I have done this and people have been too
polite or not interested enough to tell me.
What am I doing wrong?

Latest TB on WinXP sp2
-- 
Jim S
        Tyneside UK

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:05:42 +0200, squaredancer wrote:

> On 11.04.2008 19:35, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused  Jim S to 
> generate the following:? :
>> I forwarded an email with a picture only to be told that the picture
did
>> not travel and only the text arrived. I tried forwarding it to myself
and
>> sure enough no picture.
>> I don't know how many times I have done this and people have been too
>> polite or not interested enough to tell me.
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Latest TB on WinXP sp2
>>   
> 
> depends, Jim, on how you are composing *AND* sending.
> 
> 1) Embedded images (ie Image "Inserted" within the text area)
> You *MUST* Compose *AND SEND* message in HTML-format.... this is ESSENTIAL
> 
> 2) Images as attachments
> you can (or rather: should be able to) compose and send in Text Only... 
> or in HTML format, or both!
> 
> let us know how you are doing things!
> 
> reg

I do the first and I'm pretty sure the photos, but of course(?) the
photo(s) then are attachments.
However when other folks send to me then the pictures appear within the
text area (and sometimes as attachments as well).
I suspect I am one of the few posters in my circle of acquaintances who
uses T'bird.
Since posting this I have forwarded to myself  with the setting "send as
attachment" and that seems to work.
However I have just checked (since writing that last sentence) and found
that the Text Option was set to 'convert to plain text' . 
-- 
Jim S
        Tyneside UK

On 11.04.2008 19:35, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused  Jim S to 
generate the following:? :
> I forwarded an email with a picture only to be told that the picture did
> not travel and only the text arrived. I tried forwarding it to myself and
> sure enough no picture.
> I don't know how many times I have done this and people have been too
> polite or not interested enough to tell me.
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Latest TB on WinXP sp2
>   

depends, Jim, on how you are composing *AND* sending.

1) Embedded images (ie Image "Inserted" within the text area)
You *MUST* Compose *AND SEND* message in HTML-format.... this is ESSENTIAL

2) Images as attachments
you can (or rather: should be able to) compose and send in Text Only... 
or in HTML format, or both!

let us know how you are doing things!

reg

On 11.04.2008 20:05, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused  squaredancer 
to generate the following:? :
> On 11.04.2008 19:35, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused  Jim S to 
> generate the following:? :
>   
>> I forwarded an email with a picture only to be told that the picture
did
>> not travel and only the text arrived. I tried forwarding it to myself
and
>> sure enough no picture.
>> I don't know how many times I have done this and people have been too
>> polite or not interested enough to tell me.
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Latest TB on WinXP sp2
>>   
>>     
>
> depends, Jim, on how you are composing *AND* sending.
>
> 1) Embedded images (ie Image "Inserted" within the text area)
> You *MUST* Compose *AND SEND* message in HTML-format.... this is ESSENTIAL
>
> 2) Images as attachments
> you can (or rather: should be able to) compose and send in Text Only... 
> or in HTML format, or both!
>
> let us know how you are doing things!
>
> reg
>
>   

.....and another thing to look at:

if the addressee is in your address book, make sure s/he isn't set to 
receive "Plain Text" as that will strip any HTML stuff out of the post
- 
including inserted images!