[HM] Re: Huzzah! (was: Can't open picture attachment)

[Mary C. Youra]

Duane is right about this, Denise, in that you should get an 
indicator--and in fact, perhaps you are without realizing it. In OE's 
Inbox pane, there is a column of icons next to the list of incoming 
mails. When it's a fully downloaded email, it's a blue envelope. When 
email has only been partially downloaded, the icon lis a jagged half an 
envelope (I just realized that's what it was--I always thought it was a 
stylized paperclip!) If you click on the icon, it will give you options 
to leave the message on the server or download it on the next 
connection or delete in from the server.

It appears OE's default for this partial download size is 20k (though 
it's not enabled by default); I know I used to have it set for 150k, 
and it managed most things fairly well, including many .jpgs. If you 
are blocking larger emails hoping to screen out html mail, perhaps 
Postini can do that for you? I don't see a preference in OE to display 
only plain text, though you can compose that way. I know many people 
use Rules to do filter html mail, but then you are still downloading 
them, which may or may not be timeconsuming, depending on your 
connection.

Duane, sounds to me--if your pictures are routinely greater than 2MB, 
that they are not .jpgs, which is a pretty standard format (perhaps 
Photoshop?). If you do much emailing, you may want to keep in mind that 
many ISP's limit mailboxes to only 10MB, which would fill up fast at 
that rate. Our digital camera typically produces pics around 500k at a 
resolution for printing, but for emailing, we usually reduce them to 72 
dpi, and are more in the 100-200 range. iPhoto makes this very easy in 
OS X, and I've used GraphicConverter quite happily in the past, to make 
the conversions (depending on the application, it's either as Save As 
or Export as command).

On Mar 16, 2004, at 8:14 AM, Home Macintosh Users List wrote:

> I don't know what EMail program you are using. You shouldn't need to
> change the setting. There should be an indicator somewhere that the
> message was too large and to tell it to download individual message. 
> That
> way you can screen them before deciding that 35M is OK for a note from
> your dentist. ;-)
>
>  ...Duane