# Email Issue--Blocked Attached Images--NEED ANSER QUICK! **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 31, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-issue-blocked-attached-images-need-anser-quick/778715 "2017-01-31T23:37:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-issue-blocked-attached-images-need-anser-quick/778715/1 "2017-01-31T23:37:39Z")
I use Hotmail, & run Firefox 51.0.1. For some dammed reason, it wont accept new images as attachments. I need to get photos from my crummy cell phone to my home computer. **Really urgent.** I need to sell my old clunker, & I can’t Craigslist a car without photos, I cannot respond to the SDMB from work, so I can only get messages at home. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-issue-blocked-attached-images-need-anser-quick/778715/2 "2017-02-01T00:03:41Z")
It may be my phone. The display screen said it cannot send messages to my email address, or my brother’s. I have a crappy old tracfone. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-issue-blocked-attached-images-need-anser-quick/778715/3 "2017-02-01T00:13:28Z")
Can you text the photos to a better phone then email them from that phone? If you’re desperate and can’t do anything else, take a picture of the phone screen with the photo displayed with another phone, then email from that better phone. Quality will be awful so use that as a last resort. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-issue-blocked-attached-images-need-anser-quick/778715/4 "2017-02-01T00:30:07Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Can you text the photos to a better phone then email them from that phone? > > If you’re desperate and can’t do anything else, take a picture of the phone screen with the photo displayed with another phone, then email from that better phone. Quality will be awful so use that as a last resort. nope–can’t do it, as i have a nasty old lg tracfone. won’t work. also, no hookup port for a connection to the pc. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-issue-blocked-attached-images-need-anser-quick/778715/5 "2017-02-01T00:45:51Z")
ADMINS–PLEASE CLOSE THIS THREAD. I have no solution, but I need sleep & meals very badly. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-issue-blocked-attached-images-need-anser-quick/778715/6 "2017-02-01T01:19:12Z")
Borrow somebody else’s more capable phone to take & send the pix. **Bosda** : I’ve reported your thread for closing per your request. That’s the way to get a Mod’s attention. ---
**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-issue-blocked-attached-images-need-anser-quick/778715/7 "2017-02-01T04:07:40Z")
Some older phones have a slot for a memory card. If so, you may be able to copy the pictures to the memory card and then take out the card and plug it into a laptop or a commercial printing station. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-issue-blocked-attached-images-need-anser-quick/778715/8 "2017-02-01T11:13:29Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > nope–can’t do it, as i have a nasty old lg tracfone. won’t work. Tracfone has dropped 2g network support. So no more attachments, no more internet (if you had that.) All you have now are voice calls and text messages. Time for a new Tracfone. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-issue-blocked-attached-images-need-anser-quick/778715/9 "2017-02-01T23:59:36Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Tracfone has dropped 2g network support. So no more attachments, no more internet (if you had that.) All you have now are voice calls and text messages. Time for a new Tracfone. 3 g **Note—my phone can send to other computers–just not my home one.** Any suggestions?? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-issue-blocked-attached-images-need-anser-quick/778715/10 "2017-02-02T01:07:41Z")
If your phone can send emails with pix to other computers but not to your own personal computer then the problem is not in your phone. So send the pix via email to somebody. Which you say works. Then use their computer to attach the pix to your craigslist ad. My bet is that you’re confused about what’s really going on. Since all our advice is based on what you explain to us, not what’s really going on, I bet we’re mostly wasting our, & hence your, time. ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-issue-blocked-attached-images-need-anser-quick/778715/11 "2017-02-02T01:47:59Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > 3 g > **Note—my phone can send to other computers–just not my home one.** > > Any suggestions?? Earlier you said: > [@](#): > > The display screen said it cannot send messages to my email address, or my brother’s. So is the problem that your phone does not accept certain email addresses or that you cannot read your email from certain computers? These are very different problems. A computer is not the same as an email address. Start over. Tell us exactly what you are doing, what you think should happen, and what does or does not happen. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-issue-blocked-attached-images-need-anser-quick/778715/12 "2017-02-02T03:42:02Z")
So, you “\*\*NEED ANSER QUICK!” Why? Are you going to goose me? Yikes! \*\* ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-issue-blocked-attached-images-need-anser-quick/778715/13 "2017-02-02T05:06:37Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > 3 g > **Note—my phone can send to other computers–just not my home one.** > > Any suggestions?? If you email the pictures to me, I can set up your craigslist ad with your email address. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-issue-blocked-attached-images-need-anser-quick/778715/14 "2017-02-02T11:37:10Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > 3 g Ah, then you only think that you have an “old” LG Tracphone. [This](http://www.gsmarena.com/lg_cookie_style_t310-3458.php) is the LG Tracphone that I use. I really did recently lose the ability to send attachments and slooooow internet. (And I would really hate to have to replace it with one of the typical modern phones the size of the deck of an aircraft carrier with a battery life measured in milliseconds.) > [@](#): > > Any suggestions?? Nope, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-issue-blocked-attached-images-need-anser-quick/778715/15 "2017-02-03T01:10:46Z")
Problem semi-resolved.