1. when the file is dropped on email body
or
2.
when the email is sent?

It's attached as soon as you attach it.
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"Jack" replyTo@newsgroup wrote in message
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1. when the file is dropped on email body
or
2.
when the email is sent?

Buenas noches: *Bruce Hagen* escribió:
"Jack" replyTo@newsgroup wrote in message
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1. when the file is dropped on email body
or
2.
when the email is sent?

It's attached as soon as you attach it.

Actually, I don't think so, Bruce. The attachment is only then really
part of the message when it is _saved_ in OE for the first time. This
can happen with "Send" (in Outbox) or "Save" (in Drafts).

Try this:
- Create a dummy file on your desktop.
- Attach this file to a message (e-mail or post doesn't matter). Do NOT
send this message, but keep the composing window open.
- Delete the dummy.
- NOW send the message. Notice the error message concerning the file.

Saludos
Roland
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"Jack" replyTo@newsgroup wrote in message
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1. when the file is dropped on email body
or
2.
when the email is sent?



As soon as you compose the message. The file isn't "attached" somewhere
separate of the e-mail. The attachment is *IN* the e-mail's body as an
encoded MIME part. It is only your e-mail client that *displays* the e-mail
as having an "attachment" when in fact the file's contents have been encoded
into a section within the body of your message. Disposition=inline for a
MIME part within the body of the message indicates that the e-mail client
should show that part within the body of the message for however that e-mail
client displays the body. Disposition=attach indicates to the e-mail client
that it should show an indicator somewhere that there is a MIME part
containing a file but not to show it within the body. However, the e-mail
client can choose to display the "attached" file (which is within the body)
any way it wants depending on how the program's author coded the e-mail
client.

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The file is attached when you click the Send button in the message
composition window.

At that point the message is written to the Outbox folder with the
attachment encoded into it. It doesn't matter then when the message is
actually sent to the SMTP mail server.

If you alter the attachment file after you do the drag-and-drop (or
Insert, File Attachment) but before you click the send button in the
message composition window the updated file is attached.



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"Jack" replyTo@newsgroup wrote in message
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1. when the file is dropped on email body
or
2.
when the email is sent?

"Jack" replyTo@newsgroup wrote in message

1. when the file is dropped on email body
or
2.
when the email is sent?

Of the four I think Roland and Michael are the more knowledgeable about the
inner workings of OE, but what difference does it make?

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"Jack" replyTo@newsgroup wrote in message

1. when the file is dropped on email body
or
2.
when the email is sent?

Of the four I think Roland and Michael are the more knowledgeable about
the inner workings of OE, but what difference does it make?

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
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