Sorry in advance for the long posting but this is not easy to explain in just
a few words.

Using Outlook 2002 with either Notepad or Word 2002 as e-mail editor in Win'
XP sp2, is it possible to send an e-mail (using primarily a pop 3 account)
containing photos in the body of the mail rather than as an attachment, and
also to add text descriptions of the pics or to add pics to blank or part
written documents and use word wrap. Every time I have tried to send someone
an e-mail with a pic in it as an attachment, it either does not get sent at
all, despite the recipient pc software not blocking attachments or it gets
sent but they say it has never arrived.

Though I use AOHell 9.0 for Broadband to 'log on the net' and Norton
Internet Security 2005 plus other anti spyware apps none of them give me
warnings that they are blocking the 'send' or the attachment. Norton Personal
Firewall is configured using program scan. I have only once managed to get a
photo into a blank word document and can't remember how - which I would have
tried to send but the pic was so big 'by default' it completely filled the
screen with sliders at the bottom and on the right. I didn't try to send the
mail as I had no idea how make it 'fit the page'. Every time have tried to
drag and drop a photo into a blank document (Word 2002) or a 'new mail' in
Outlook before or after some text it always ends up as an attachment, which I
don't want to send.

I have also tried cutting and pasting but each time I do this, 'cutting'
just seems to eat the photo or what ever else I was trying to import into the
word document that I would try to send (and there is no usable paste button)
later as an e-mail (Rich or Plain text or HTML) or the 'New' Outlook mail
that I am composing.

Also not connected with the photo/attachment problem I am regularly getting
send/recieve error messages '(0x800CCC0F)' or '(0x800CCC0D)' with text like
or very similar to 'could not connect to the server, please contact your
server administrator or ISP'. The numbers may not be exactly correct but the
text always says to contact server administrator or ISP whatever else the
text says. I am the only user of this pc and I have contacted AOHell, who
insist that the problem is with the oem (with an orange smartphone) version
of outlook 2002, despite these 'send receive errors' (which last between 10
minutes and approx 2-3 hours) coinciding with similar if not exactly the same
problem sending and receiving mail to and from my aol.com address, which also
coincidentally seems to 'right itself' at the same time as outlook.

I have asked microsoft a very long while ago, but that was before I new
about these communities. Their answer then was the usual: Sorry, we can't
help with oem's, contact the vendor of the application cocerned and 'Orange'
was about as much use a chocolate teapot!, as despite messages relayed from
Microsoft staff in Reading who advised me to insist that it was 'Oranges'
problem they kept passsing the buck back to Microsoft who did not want to
know. I gave the names of two 'Professional?' staff members at Microsoft to
Orange - with their permission - who finally who suggested that Orange
contact these one or both of these two people to discuss it but they refused,
so I was just left with the problem which is still happening.

If anybody has any ideas - apart from cancelling my B'band account (that is
very likely already in the pipeline) - I would love to hear them, Thanks in
advance.

TufftyBob wrote:

Using Outlook 2002 with either Notepad or Word 2002 as e-mail editor
in Win' XP sp2, is it possible to send an e-mail (using primarily a
pop 3 account) containing photos in the body of the mail rather than
as an attachment, and also to add text descriptions of the pics or to
add pics to blank or part written documents and use word wrap.

Since Notepad can't be used as an email editor in Outlook (Outlook can use
its built-in editor or Word), obviously it's not possible with Notepad.
With Word, however, composing in HTML, you should be able to send a message
contaiing anything Word's HTML features can do. IN particular, pictures can
be embedded with the InsertPicture function. I don't know if the HTML
features of Word in clude captioning, but there are a ton of inexpensive and
free picture editors that can add the caption and text to the picture itself
so that it's automatically there when you embed the picture.

Also not connected with the photo/attachment problem I am regularly
getting send/recieve error messages '(0x800CCC0F)' or '(0x800CCC0D)'
with text like or very similar to 'could not connect to the server,
please contact your server administrator or ISP'.

The most frequent causes of this are 1) scanning mail with an antivirus
scanner (not necessary if you run the real-time scanner), 2) a send/receive
interval that's too short, or 3) a server timeout value set too low.
--
Brian Tillman

Hi Brian, thanks for the info.
I will try the insert picture function again. I am sure I must have been
doing something wrong last time I tried to put a pic in an e-mail for it not
to work, but it is too long ago to remember exactly what I might have done
wrong at the time.

Cheers!

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

TufftyBob wrote:

Using Outlook 2002 with either Notepad or Word 2002 as e-mail editor
in Win' XP sp2, is it possible to send an e-mail (using primarily a
pop 3 account) containing photos in the body of the mail rather than
as an attachment, and also to add text descriptions of the pics or to
add pics to blank or part written documents and use word wrap.

Since Notepad can't be used as an email editor in Outlook (Outlook can use
its built-in editor or Word), obviously it's not possible with Notepad.
With Word, however, composing in HTML, you should be able to send a message
contaiing anything Word's HTML features can do. IN particular, pictures can
be embedded with the InsertPicture function. I don't know if the HTML
features of Word in clude captioning, but there are a ton of inexpensive and
free picture editors that can add the caption and text to the picture itself
so that it's automatically there when you embed the picture.

Also not connected with the photo/attachment problem I am regularly
getting send/recieve error messages '(0x800CCC0F)' or '(0x800CCC0D)'
with text like or very similar to 'could not connect to the server,
please contact your server administrator or ISP'.

The most frequent causes of this are 1) scanning mail with an antivirus
scanner (not necessary if you run the real-time scanner), 2) a send/receive
interval that's too short, or 3) a server timeout value set too low.
--
Brian Tillman