How do you embed images in the body of an email?

[pottycock]

Very quick question from work!!

I will be eternally grateful to anyone who can help, grovel at your feet etc etc.

TIA

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there must be at least one technical genius on tonight....?

Do you mean attaching a photo, where it shows up in the email instead of as a clickable attachment?

Outlook express has an INSERT menu and you just select picture and browse to where it is on your hard drive.

Onager - I've tried 'insert picture (from file)' on outlook and it doesn't seem to translate to my yahoo acct?

Knickknack - yes! That's exactly what I want to do.

Is there a particular reason why you can't send as an attachment?

You would need to upload your image to a webserver and then create an HTML formatted email message containing

But I would send as an attachment unless there was a very good reason not to!

Do I need to create an account with a webserver to do that? Sorry - totally clueless. It's for an e-newsletter so yes, we do need to embed them in the email body rather than send as an attachment. Thanks for your help!

I just looked at yahoo email. If you are using it on the yahoo website there seems to be no way to embed images except as Molesworth says.

What you apparently can do is make a word document (or any similar document) and send that as an attachment and that would then be the whole newsletter laid out as you wanted. The body of the email would then just tell them to open the attachment to read the newsletter

If you pay for yahoo plus I believe you can use it as pop email which would mean you could compose it in outlook on your computer and that ought to do what you want. Having said that you can probably do a better newsletter with Word or some other publishing software than with an email client.

No, you don't need to sign up for anything - upload your image(s) to a free image hosting server like tinypic.com. If you don't know HTML you might need some assistance with putting the newsletter together from someone who does though!

As far as I remember it might be possible to do what you are looking for with hotmail. It would only take a few minutes for you to open an account.
They have an option to attach a file (adds as an attachment), or to attach a photo (it appears in email). It only works in Internet Explorer, not with Firefox.

Just tried it, and it works with hotmail/IE