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Comment from Lee Guptill on 2010-09-16

2010-09-16T15:10:05Z

I created a folder in My Documents to transfer my e-mail pictures, but I can't figure out how to configure in my e-mail program in Outlook Express. Any ideas?

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Comment from henley on 2010-01-27

2010-01-28T07:18:55Z

Leo, I agree with the previous poster that the question was perfectly posed, but I'm afraid I stil don't understand your response. Feel free to talk to me like I'm in the 5th grade, if that's what it takes. Tonight I sent an image from my cell phone to my yahoo email address. Then I opened the email and viewed the image. At the bottom of the page I was viewing, there was a delete icon, a print icon, etc. There was also a right and left arrow at the bottom. Each time I clicked on one of the arrows, I saw different images than the one I sent. These images included photos as well as geometric shapes. Where did those images come from? Why are they visible?

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Comment from Jennifer on 2009-12-08

2009-12-08T18:23:57Z

Leo, I thought your reply to this question would answer my question as the writer worded it so well. What I think she meant was that there were pictures attached that were not part of the original Email and were not on her computer either. I had and Email sent to me that also contained pornographic pictures that were not (knowingly) sent by the writer or were on my computer. Where would they have come from?

I answered it the way I did because 99% of the time the "extra" images were not actually attached to the email, even though it appears that they were. Most of the time email programs extrat the image to the temporary folder when you want to view them, at which point other pictures that were already in the temporary folder may also appear. It's easy to think that they were part of the email when they were not. It's actually difficult to "accidently" attach additionaal photos, and I've not yet heard of malware that does something like this.

09-Dec-2009

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Comment from Red Davis on 2008-08-20

2008-08-21T01:54:12Z

I can handle the attached pics but how do I keep those that are embedded -- when I save the email as an '.eml' they all go away and are replaced by dammnable red x's. Any help here would be appreciated. Red

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Comment from Michael Wilson on 2007-09-27

2007-09-27T17:12:48Z

If you're using Thunderbird, you can install the Slideshow extension. This will add a "View as Slideshow" button on all emails that have attached pictures. Clicking this button will bring up a nice window with only the pictures attached to the specific email. Also includes zooming and save functions. For now, you will need the MR Tech Local Install extension too to override Thunderbird's version compatibility checking.

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Comment from Volg on 2007-09-19

2007-09-19T08:17:35Z

I think you hit the nail on the head with this one Leo. However, I read the question as: there were extra picture attachments to the email that make no sense i.e. the fonts and geometrical shapes. If this is the case, then it might be the senders signature coming through as an attachment, especially if they have sent the email as a plain text file.

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Comment from David Heym on 2007-09-14

2007-09-15T03:03:04Z

I use Web mail: Hotmail or Comcast. When I click on the attachment in Comcast I have the choice of opening it up in a temporary file or downloading it. Generally I choose the temporary file because I often don't want to keep the image, just look at it now. Of course when I want to keep it I put into My Pictures or similar file. You didn't mention this option of just looking at it now.

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