New to eM client. I have struck a major problem - for me.
I often send out many email with 20 or so pictures ATTACHED to it , plus have various website links listed in the actual email content.
I now discover all the images are going into the content AND in large size.
I have to set the email to HTML to make the web links LIVE!
It might seem that I have to use plain text perhaps to stop the images being included in the email content? If so, that is really bad news for me.
I have come from Windows Live Mail where both live links show in the email and attachments stay as attachments
It must be possible to prevent images going into content AND be able to make all the website links live in an email. I must have missed the right setting for this to occur?
I would really appreciate a solution as I would like to stay with eM client.
We display image attachments as previews after the message, scaled to fit the width. We do that for both plain text and HTML messages alike. But it may appear differently in the recipient’s email app as not every app does it the same way.
Inserting an image as a link initially displays in full size, but you can right-click on the image and change the size before you send it.
Thank you for your reply. That is so sad. I really thought I had found a good replacement for WLM but that one thing cuts out most of my email send. I have never encountered that before and am confused that a customers understandable choice to send images as attachments is overruled and they are placed in the content.! I cant even think of any good reason why that is done. If someone wants an image in the content, they can do that. I did eventually find the setting to add image icon on toolbar. Slowly been finding and rearranging things, taking into account problems like no option on tool bar to save email …and storing emails waiting to be completed or sent in specific folders other than draft doesn’t work as they have to be forwarded then instead of just sent, overall it was going well, and I love the storage allowance and now discover there is no way I can prevent my friends around the world being blasted with dozens of images in my emails. Their choice to click on what they want to see is gone. I dont understand why that was done and why its never been reviewed to respect your customers choice. Such a major issue.
But we display previews of image attachments AFTER the message. It may appear differently in the recipient’s email app as not every app does it the same way. I know that Thunderbird does it the same as we do, and Mail (from WIndows 11) displays it before the message text.
I understand what you say. Unfortunately it doesn’t matter with the type of email I send. The attached images are shown huge in the email and cant be resized, which would be a hassle to do anyway. I often have just a couple of lines of message, which gets lost in the blast of 20 or 30 huge images that follows. I need to have attachments stay where an attachment by definition is meant to be.
I just did the update of eM client and every part of me was praying someone had decided not to overrule the customers choice to have an image as an attachment… AND that font size would be added to tool bar a lot to increase or decrease size of particular sections of note. Never seen that missing. Why does it matter what Thunderbird does? Does that make it
justified somehow. Such a pity what could be so good, not being examined for issues mentioned by customers that are deal breakers like the images in emails! SO SAD. All my friends around the world are complaining about the image issue… many taking up the entire page .
Attached images ARE NOT shown inside the message. We preview them AFTER the message. eM Client will scale the preview to fit the width of where they are being displayed, so in a separate window or the preview pane, and we also provide a button in the image preview to toggle the image from scaled to full size.
If the image is showing in the message body, it is not an attached image. It is an embedded image. When you place an embedded image you can right-click on it choose the size you want to display it as. The image will always be displayed explicitly following the size you specify there.
We don’t overrule what you do. You can choose to attach an image or embed it. The only exception is with embedded images. If you embed images in a message, then send it as plain text. That standard doesn’t support embedded images, so they can’t be embedded in the message. They are added as attachments instead. But if you add an image as an attachment, it will always be an attachment. We never have and never will change that to an embedded image.
I gave the examples because this is a common way for email applications to display attached images. Maybe the recipients of your email don’t have eM Client, but whatever application they use probably shows it exactly as we do.
I maybe did not explain well. By in the message i dont mean the images are stuck inside the text. I meant they are shown in that content pane. So my readers get a brief…or no text… and are then confronted with dozens of images that often fill the width of the page, as you say. I dont want to imbed the images. Thats the last thing i generally want. Maybe an occasional one. Of course those could be adjusted. I added image to the tool bar, which wasnt there by default.
I get emails sent to me from all over world and australia and i think its happened only several times that attached images are ALSO in the email content. It just makes no sense to me at all as a concept. The person sending is choosing a particular image to only be sent as an attachment. If we want it in the email content, we can put it there. Easy.
Well, that has nothing to do with the application that is used to send the message. It depends rather on how their email application displays attachments. As I said before other applications do it the same as we do; they display previews of the image attachments before or after the message itself. Maybe the recipients of your messages could contact the vendor of their email applications and ask them to do it differently.
We don’t display attachments inside the message. We display embedded images in the message, and attached images as previews after the message.