I want to be able to print an email with an attachment. The attachment is on the bottom of the email. I don't want to exactly print the attachment but the email so I can see that it has an attachment. Most of the emails that I receive have the attachments on the bottom of the screen, I want them in the body so I can print them.
Attachments are a source of great confusion for many people. In concept they're very, very simple. Excruciatingly simple, as a matter of fact.
Then some email programs try to get "helpful", and all heck breaks loose.
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Attachments are nothing more than files that accompany an email message. There's nothing special about them, there's nothing magical. It's just a file. Save it to disk, and you can do anything you want with that file, assuming you have the proper tools on your machine to act on it.
Some email programs try to get fancy when they display an email message that has accompanying attachments. Outlook Express, for example, will notice if the attachments appear to be images, and if they are, it will helpfully display those images below the email message body. The problem is that while it looks like the images are below the message, in fact they are not. That very same message viewed in a different email program (say, Microsoft Office's Outlook) will not display the images below the body. Outlook will only display the icons that indicate that the message has attachments. If you want to open them, you'll need to do so explicitly.
It's a source of frustration and confusion for people moving from Outlook Express to Outlook, because they find Outlook Express's behavior convenient.
It's also a source of frustration for people attempting to send mail that will look the same everywhere.
HTML mail and Rich Text mail can get even more confusing, because images that appear in-line in one person's mail program may appear as separate attachments to someone else looking at the same message. Or worse ... the entire email message may appear as an attachment.
And so it goes with printing. There's no standard way to print an email message that has attachments. Some programs will print an indicator that there are attachments. Others will not. Some will print the attachment, if they know how, others will print a placeholder or nothing at all.
So in short, there is no blanket answer to what you're looking for. You'll have to experiment with your email program to see if it supports printing email the way you want. Be sure to look for "Page Setup" and advanced printing types of options. Your email program may call them something else, but they hold the keys to what will be possible.
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I need to print my e-mails! please tell me HOW.
Posted by: sonya at May 14, 2006 5:38 AMDisable HTML...
Posted by: Jaapie at May 15, 2006 5:30 AMI would like to know why certain e-mail messages that I receive show the attachment in the body of the email while others do not.
I would like to be able to see all the attachments in the body of the email but I don't know how to make this happen. Can someone please help me?
I can be reached at JLVPHX@netscape.net
Thanks!
Louie
Posted by: Louie Valdez at July 6, 2006 12:21 PMI dont understand why you people are still asking how to do this, when there was a link for service pack posted.
this is included fix w/sp1
Nothing indicates that an attachment is included in a printed HTML e-mail message
Posted by: Danny at November 2, 2006 7:53 AMWhen you print an HTML e-mail message that has an attachment, there is no field or icon for attachments. This hotfix adds an Attachments box to the HTML e-mail message. This box displays the file name of the attachments.
I have a relating problem, only I ONLY want to print the email and not the atachment showed below the email.... How do we solve this? Because if I click print (or file - print), the email is printed in lets say 10% and the attachment in 100%...
Posted by: angela at January 16, 2007 6:04 AMI SOMETIMES GET EMAILS THAT I WANT TO FORWARD ON TO FRIENDS/FAMILY---MANY TIMES I'VE DONE SO, AND IT'S WENT THRU EXACTLY THE WAY I RECEIVED IT,
Posted by: Roxy B at October 21, 2007 7:50 PMPRINT, GRAPHICS AND ALL!!!
HOWEVER, SOMETIMES WHEN I TRY TO FORWARD, THE
GRAPHICS/PICTURES ARE MISSING, AND IN THEIR PLACE
ARE PLAIN WHITE BOXES WITH A LITTLE RED X IN THE UPPER LEFT HAND CORNER. AND-I USUALLY SEND AS INLINE TEXT.
SO, CAN SOMEONE CLUE ME IN ON THIS PUZZLING PHENOMENA, AND HELP ME TO GET IT STRAIGHT THRU,
NO GLITCHES/ABSENTEES?!?!?! SURE WOULD APPRECIATE IT, I HAVE A FEW IN WAITING!
THANKS SOOOOOOOOO MUCH!
I had to reload Outlook Express when I purchased a new Dell laptop. I had used Express Assistant EA9 to back-up and restore my old Outlook Exp. files and Windows Address book (which works wonderfully!) but now I get the little red X when someone sends an attachment. Can you point me to a fix. I have Windows XP Pro. SP2 installed on the new Dell.
Thanks,
Mike
Posted by: Mike Haselmire at October 28, 2007 6:54 PMI need to send an email with the attachment included, and I cannot get it to print. I also don't know what ( Output To File Name ) means.
Posted by: Evelyn Dewar at October 29, 2007 2:21 PMCan you help me with this problem.
You cannot print an HTML format email with the evidence of attachment. Only plain text will print that way. But you have got a work around :)
1. Open the HTML email from your inbox
Posted by: Gireesh at June 23, 2008 10:01 AM2. Go to 'edit' menu and select 'edit message'
3. Then go to 'format menu' and select 'Plain text' and press 'Yes'
4. Then go to 'File menu' - Page setup - and select 'Memo style'
5. Then print and you will get it with the attachment on it.
6. If you want the content of the attachment also printed, then tick 'Print attached file with item(s)'option from the print window.
Emails are PARTIALLY PRINTING, ONLY the "visible" text PRINTS.
Posted by: Bob Kosmidek at March 21, 2009 7:28 AMWorse, the FONT SIZE is probably a 6!! I need to print all the body/text in a SIZE I can read without resorting to a magnifying glass.
This QUIRK just happened and I need instructions to RESTORE 1) ENTIRE Message and 2) Font SIZE of 10 , 12 preferred
Thanks Bob