[X-Newbies] an eMail Question...

J themacintoshlady at earthlink.net
Thu May 10 13:02:35 PDT 2007


Well it boils down to Yahoo is webmail, which is not as WYSIWYG as  
your Apple Mail which is a client on your drive.

Who is your provider? Your ISP should have given you at least one  
username to set up in your Apple Mail. The rest is child's play.

On May 10, 2007, at 3:47 PM, Richard Ramsowr wrote:

> Robert
>
> Thanks for the insight...
>
> I always thought one could drag an image on to the
> eMail "open space" i.e the space I writing on as I
> type this on...
>
> In other words, in this application I don't wish to
> attach the image just mount it...
>
> As for the other question, I was was hoping to move
> over to Apple's Mail - I'v tired of yahoo's solution
>
> Rick
> --- Robert MacLeay <robertmacleay at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> On 5/10/07 10:55 AM, "Richard Ramsowr"
>> <r.ramsowr at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I"m trying to embed (thank that's the correct
>> term) a
>>> doc image into the body of  the eMail i.e when a
>>> person open the email they should see a view of my
>>> letterhead with text, a photo and/or other images
>> that
>>> I might embed in the body of the eMail.
>>
>> Hi, Rich!
>>
>> There is unfortunately, no universal solution to
>> your problem.
>>
>> There are too many different email programs out
>> there, all of which
>> implement integrated page elements differently, for
>> there to be one sure way
>> of adding graphical formatting to an email.
>>
>> This is why the first line of many commercial emails
>> is
>> "If you can't see this email, click here."
>> Even the guys who make big bucks writing this stuff
>> professionally can't
>> make sure everyone can read it.
>>
>> I can guarantee you that the fancier you make your
>> mail, the fewer people
>> will be able to see it as you intended.
>>
>> THAT SAID...
>>
>> What I do when I wish to send a formatted email is
>> to create a web page in a
>> WSYWIG html editor and then paste the raw html code
>> into Thunderbird and
>> send it through that email program.  Thunderbird is
>> the only program I am
>> aware of which allows pasting in html code.  Even
>> those programs which use
>> html insist on doing it themselves, which severely
>> limits the number of
>> recipients who can read it.
>>
>> I am unsure of what you are asking when you say
>> "turn off Yahoo's mail
>> service."  Are you perhaps using webmail and wish to
>> go to a regular mail
>> (Mail!) program?  You will have to investigate with
>> Yahoo; there should be a
>> page somewhere on Yahoo that gives you the setup
>> protocol for regular mail.
>>
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