Attached JPGs are inbedded in Notes

I can't help I'm afraid - but I'm having the same problem.

I am sending JPG images attached in my MAIL email, to a Lotus NOTES account on a windows XP machine. The NOTES account picks up attachments in the usual way from everyone else but when I send them, they are detachable - only in the body of the email.

You might want to try the followng (suggestions from other threads) but I have tried them and it still doesn't work for me:
1. Click 'windows friendly attachments' box
2. Send as plain text
3. Contol click and change to icons

Desperate to resolve this as it's a pretty basic function: attaching a picture and send to a friend so they can download it. PC users are laughing at us!

It's their email client that is formatting them that way. You should be laughing at them. Nothing you can do on Mail will change the way their email client works. If they bought better software, they could make their emails look like they want them to.

So there's nothing I can do to send JPG attachments to them?

I guess that gives me the high ground but they still claim not to have a problem from anyone else - so I'll be the one who has to downgrade if I want to join the party.

I hate compatibility issues.

Is it because the Mail default is to embed the files in the email body?
It seems like this is the cause rather than the receiving software - after all, it's more normal for emails to be sent with real attachements (icons) rather than embedded pics.

Should I try different email software?

Ask them why they are having a problem. Every other email client is capable of getting the attachments. What's wrong with them?

Based upon my testing of this issue, it is because Mail (also Thunderbird) attachs with a header that includes that it is Inline. Lotus Notes cannot render these correctly, and Notes developers are aware of the issue, and perhaps the latest version handle, but I do not know.

The irony is that they can Forward these messages to others not using Lotus Notes, and the message will still be in good order.

If you zip the JPEGs in folder, then I think the images will get through OK, but they will have to unzip the folder.

Ernie

Just discovered that this is the same for Outlook Express users. They are unable to detach any images embedded in the body of the email.
So it seems 99% of users can't deal with jpg or pdf attachments in the normal way from Mail users - are they ALL using the wrong software?

I've been having the same problem ever since our network was updated at work. Sometimes they arrived, sometimes they were embedded. Sending as a zip usually works but I also found that if I was saving a file to jpg using Photoshop, used 'Save for Web' and made sure that the 'Optimized' butoon isn't ticked they started to work again. Hope this helps.

I have had this problem sending jpg files using Mail to a Windows computer at work where we are obliged to use Lotus Notes 7.

I tried most of the the suggested fixes at the Mail end:
* Windows friendly attachments
* Place attachments at end
* Plain text
* View as icon
But none of these seem to make any difference.

However, I just discovered that you can fix it by changing a Preference at the Lotus end:
File >
Preferences >
User Preferences >
Basics >
Additional Options >
Show in-line MIME images as attachments

Those embedded images seem now to show up as 'standard' attachments and you can right-click and save them in the ordinary way