Attaching a Photo (or a File) to Your Mail

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MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions is the standard for attaching non-text files to standard Internet mail messages. Non-text files include graphics, spreadsheets, formatted word-processor documents, sound files, etc. An email program is said to be MIME Compliant if it can both send and receive files using the MIME standard. When non-text files are sent using the MIME standard they are converted (encoded) into text - although the resulting text is not really readable. Generally speaking the MIME standard is a way of specifying both the type of file being sent, and the method that should be used to turn it back into its original form.

Attaching a Photo (or a File) to Your Mail

One of the best things about email is that you aren't just limited to sending text messages. Email also allows you to send files with your missives. This means that whether you want to send a photo of the family living abroad or email a Gobe Productive document to someone you work with.

Note that you should always check the size of the file that you are about to send, many ISPs limit the size of attachments their users can receive (usually one or two megabytes). Not to forget the friends you have sitting on a dial-up connection, they will not thank you for sending the monster files attached to a mail!

Start BeMail or Beam from the Deskbar, and compose a new mail as normal, address it and type out your message. To add a file to your mail, click on the "Attach" button in the toolbar.

A dialog box will appear, which invites you to locate the file you wish to attach. Navigate to your file, it this case a file in /boot/home/documents, and then highlight it with a click of your mouse. Click on the Open button.

Within a second you'll see the file attached to your message.

Click the Send button to send your mail.

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