iphoto email attachments aren't read properly in Outlook

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I'm responsible for maintaining my wife's Mac which is running OS X. When she emails photos to me, I receive each one as two files - one attachment with the picture (of the format iPhotoiPhoto-mailtmp-XX.jpg) and another attachment with the filename.

Obviously she'd rather send out one attachment with the proper filename.

I've tested this with Outlook and a UNIX system as well as my Hotmail account. Looking at iphoto and mail preferences on her Mac there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to change this. Am I missing something?
 
Originally posted by edX
ditch outlook and use mail.
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LOL...Ed, I'm thinking they are looking for a more technical answer. I have problems with Mail as well...it's not the end-all of email programs. :p
 
uh, yea. considering he's probably using outlook on a pc, i should have said "ditch the pc and get another mac".

what bugs me is that people assume that it has to be the macs fault or mail's fault? why don't they ever ask "what can i do to outlook express to fix this problem?"

sorry, i'm just really bent out of shape right now over issues with sbc yahoo and a pop server account and the first thing every tech help person i talk to wants me to do is check it in entourage or express. i refuse to allow such apps space on my drives. of course when i make them use the app and see for themselves, then they shut up, but not until.
 
Are you talking about Outlook or Outlook Express? What OS is Outlook running on? Are you sending HTML email?
 
There's one thing about email clients that people should realize:
Standards compliance (RFC compliance) is even worse that in web browsers. And there's probably 3 times more email clients than web browsers available to choose from on any platform. In my experience the best you can get is "XYZ works very well except for..." or "ZYX is quite stable, fast and easy to use but...". Unfortunately a lot of people are not aware of this. I wasn't before my company made me develop a solution for sending email newsletters (with HTML and inline images, I'm not talking about spam BTW) that works on as many email clients as possible. I wrote a solution using PHP and I spend a lot of time just tweaking the body of the message. Finally I decided to ditch non-compliant clients and precisely follow the RFC standards.
My email client? Eudora. I love it, but...it's not the best in rendering HTML.
 
Two comments:
1) attachement management can be improved in mail
2) email client selection when iPhoto is sending should follow the system preferences
 
"2) email client selection when iPhoto is sending should follow the system preferences"

iPhoto 2 does. Check the iPhoto Preferences at the botom.
 
I just upgraded our Mac to iPhoto 2 which I hadn't known was out. That seemed like a great suggestion. Unfortunately, I still have the same problem, which is that we use "share" and then "mail" from within iPhoto the recipient (using UNIX mailers like elm or mutt plus Outlook (2000) on a PC (running XP) and Hotmail (Outlook Express or MSIE 6) every photo is accompanied by a second file that has the name of the photo.

So if we send 2 photos, the recipient gets 4 attached files: 2 photos + 2 files with the names of the photo.

It's great that the photos are sent and we can live with the situation if we have to. But it'd be nice if the recipient could save the picture on their hard drive if they wanted to.

I like Jaguar on my wife's computer a bunch. And when it comes time for me to upgrade to a new computer, maybe I'll buy a Mac. I do hope that Apple releases a version that runs on Intel chips.

Thanks for the help so far.
 
a version of jag that runs on x86 architecture? don't hold your breath. buy a mac or accept what you get.
 
You're probably seeing the Mac's resource fork on the PC. Usually it starts with a period(.) and has the same name as the regular file.

There's no way that I know to get around seeing them on a PC. Just ignore them if you can, or buy an iMac :p
 
Originally posted by jdeibele
...(if) we use "share" and then "mail" from within iPhoto the recipient (using UNIX mailers like elm or mutt plus Outlook (2000) on a PC (running XP) and Hotmail (Outlook Express or MSIE 6) every photo is accompanied by a second file that has the name of the photo.
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I just tried this through Entourage which sends outbout via a Unix SMTP... it works fine.

Does it do something different if you de-select the options for including names & comments?

Why don't you simply Export the images from iPhoto and then import them into your mail program as attachements?
 
Originally posted by Satcomer
"2) email client selection when iPhoto is sending should follow the system preferences"

iPhoto 2 does. Check the iPhoto Preferences at the botom.
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No... actually id does not.

I have Entrourage set up as my mail program in the Interent preferences (and have since long before iPhoto existed), but iPhoto insisted on launching Mail.

Once I set the seperate preference in iPhoto, then it happily used Entourage.
 
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