I want to put a picture in my email but I do not want to use an attachment. I just want to stick it in with the text. I am using yahoo.
Can anybody help me?
thanks,
hh
It is a bad idea in general. The main reason is that you have to know the mail client that the person is going to use to receive it and how it is set up. They will probably just get an attachment anyway when it gets received. There is no universal standard for embedding pictures and attachments are usually preferred.
Some mail clients can do this just fine but that is mainly for sending things internally like within a company.
Email is a text-based format. Some email clients let you do other things (embed images, utilize cute lavender stationery, format your text in Garamond 12 with tab stops, etc) but that doesn’t mean it’s going to look like that to the recipient.
And it may not look like anything at all to the recipient, insofar as email containing HTML code goes straight into the trashcan, unseen and unread, on my workstation and that of many other folks who are sick and tired of spam.
If you want to send someone a message with graphic design content, put it up as a web page and send 'em a link.
Are you using the web client, or a PC client with POP/SMTP access to Yahoo (not offered with the free version). I have never seen a web mail client that will allow you to do that. Yahoo webmail lets you apply backgrounds and formatting, which implies that you can send email in HTML format, but it hides the HTML from you and so you can’t imbed an image like that. Looks like attachments only.
As Shagnasty notes, it varies among clients, but you generally need a native client to do it, like Outlook.
I reverse myself. I was able to just paste an inline picture into the text area of Yahoo! mail (free version), and my Outlook 2003 client showed it as inline (after I clicked to allow images to display).
Did you try just pasting it in?
All warnings and admonitions from other posters still apply.
thanks for the help!
hh