Attaching Files etc To Mail

Follow the steps below to send attachments (pictures etc) with your mail.

Netscape Communicator 4.0

1. Click the Attach button.
2. Select the File or Web Page to attach to your document. Click OK.
3. Send your message as per usual.

If Netscape can display the attachment to a message, it will. Otherwise it shows a description of the attachment.

1. Click once on the description to display the file.

 

Microsoft Outlook Express

Select Insert/File Attachment or click the Paperclip icon.
1. Select the file to attach to your message.
2. Send your message as per usual.

If a message appears with a paperclip icon:

1. Click once to see the file name
2. Click twice on the paperclip to see the file.

 

About Attachments

Attachments can be one of three kinds: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension), Uuencoding and BinHex.

Your e-mail program must be able to attach files by one of these methods and to detect attachments in (preferably) all three of these methods. The two browsers used as examples in these notes can do this.

Examples of the sorts of files you can send as attachments are: pictures, word processing documents, sounds, movies, programs and compressed files.