Forwarding Attachments

[jonnyb]

Why, when I forward an attachment from my PC to someone else that the attachment or photo shows up as a text. Do I have to compose all over again.

[jdc2000]

There are several possible reasons for this, however, we would need additional information to narrow them down. What e-mail program are you using? Are you using a standard ISP, or something like AOL, Hotmail, MSN, etc.? What e-mail program is the recipient using? Is the recipient using a standard ISP, or AOL/MSN/Hotmail/etc.? If standard ISP's are used, are they blocking attachments of certain types. Some ISP's allow their users to decide whether to block certain types of attachments, others block them whether the users want them to or not. In addition, if the recipient is behind a firewall, it may be be blocking (or converting to text) the attachments.

[jonnyb]

I can't even send my Yahoo mail with a picture or attachment back to myself. So this is what I use. If it won't come back to me with the document and pictures on the same HD then how is anyone's going to receive it on a Forward? I have a regular ISP and a Verizon DSL line. It's the same. Is this a email rule that you can't forward attachments to another email account that it has to be either text in the email or it will not carry over.

[jdc2000]

According to Yahoo's information page, their e-mail has a 4MB limit on e-mail storage, so if your attachment is larger than that, you could have a problem. They also use virus scanning and (supposedly) spam guard. If your attachment did contain a virus (or Yahoo thought it did even if it didn't), you could have it blocked by that. Their 'spam guard' shouldn't do anything to e-mails forwarded to yourself.

Someone else who actually uses Yahoo for e-mail can probably tell you more than that. I suspect that when you forward e-mail using Yahoo, it does not automatically include the attachments, meaning that you will have to compose a new message instead, but I have no way to verify this. Other Yahoo users will probably have a definite answer.

[jonnyb]

Believe me, I have been trying to forward pictures for years in Yahoo and they don't come thru as an attachment or don't show up in the message as a photo. Just the words bla, bla, bla, bla.Jpeg I just recently tried attachments with a word doc. Nothing.

[Daizy]

I've just practiced it adnauseum. (Forward to yahoo from outlook express........forward from yahoo to outlook express) Works just fine.

I sent an email with pictures in it........to my yahoo account.
I opened the email in yahoo.
I clicked the forward button (making sure the option "as attachment" has been chosen )
Clicked send.

Daizy

[jonnyb]

How many times do I have to do this to prove to my self that you can't do it. I composed one with a picture and word doc. I sent it to myself and then I opened it and forwarded it to myself again, This is in Yahoooooooooo, and it didn't make it. Just the words Attachments part 1 and part 2. When I went to forward it, there was nothing to click on to Send as Attachment. There is a button to re-attach it though. But if I was on someone else's computer that didn't have the documents on the hard drive, it couldn't find the doc or pix to attach.
So this is Yahoo to Yahoo not Outlook to Yahoo or Endura to Yahoo or AOL or any other email account. Yahoo to Yahoooooooooooooooooo
PS: What is adnausum?

[jonnyb]

Originally posted by jdc2000
According to Yahoo's information page, their e-mail has a 4MB limit on e-mail storage, so if your attachment is larger than that, you could have a problem.

What does this have to do with it? I can send one character.

[jonnyb]

Now I tried to send from an AOL mail account to Yahoo with the Forward and it did not work.