I send e-mails via a phone line. I have a 28.8 modem and a pentium 133. When I send pictures to friends, sometimes they come through as gibberish, ie, numbers and letters,etc. Also, the receivers get numerous e-mails from me, sometimes 20 or more, when I only send one. I realize that the picture is being broken up into smaller pieces, but why does this happen, and why only to some people some of the time? Is it my pc or theirs?Thanks.
Carol

I use HP scan jet 3400C to send pictures and HP software and have not had any trouble. How are and what are you using to send pictures? My internet connection only gets to 26 4 so I do not think it is your connection. But again I am not a pro yet, but working on it. Hope maybe this helped a little. Thanks Andy

Actually it maybe your ISP...depending upon your ISP and the size of the file there may be a limitation on how large of a file you can send, or the same thing can be happenning on the receivers end...you may have to shrink the file some on order for them to receive it. If it is a jpeg you can use editing software and either reduce the physical size of the pic (like form 1600x1200 to like 800x600) or reduce the quality level, both of which will cut the file size dramatically....

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File size limitations would address the file-chopping issue (maybe, tho' most email servers I've been inflicted with will refuse it rather than chop it up), but I wonder if the gibberish is produced by lack of proper MIME type assignment at the receiving end (the email attachment is sort of being interpreted as text). I used to know how to fix that...let me fuss around for a while and see if I can resurrect it...if that's the problem, you can't fix it for them. What email programs are involved? Is there any consistency on the receiving end (same program always causing problem to different users)?

Try starting here: http://www.hunnysoft.com/mime/ and here http://www.hunnysoft.com/mime/decode.htm

Does the second page sort of match the situation? (Again, wondering if the email software in question is known to be "MIME-compliant". If not, then gibberish...)

[This message has been edited by not_fred (edited 10-24-2001).]