> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew Allen
> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:42 AM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: Emailing jpeg images with Evolution 2.8.0
>
> On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 00:31 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> > Andrew Allen wrote on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:24:52 +0000:
> >
> > > I recently emailed an important jpeg image to a
> colleague, but when he
> > > tried to insert it into a document it 'failed'. It
> appears that when
> > > jpegs are attached to messages, they become 'corrupted' -
> is this a
> > > known problem with evolution, and/or is there a way of solving the
> > > problem?
> >
> > I'm missing a crucial part here: verification. He received
> the mail and he
> > "inserted" it. Well, there's no mention that he saved it
> and *looked* at
> > it. How do you know that it was corrupted *before* "insertion"?
> >
> Good point - having investigated the matter further, it appears that
> this is another compatibility issue between Microsoft and the rest of
> us! My colleague was trying to insert the jpeg image into a
> MS Publisher
> document, having saved the image etc. The image was not
> 'accepted' by MS
> Publisher, whereas when I ran a test to insert the same emailed image
> into an OpenOffice document it worked fine! So I was mistaken to say
> that the image was corrupted - I'll just have to pass the image to my
> colleague by means other than email.
>
> Andy
Nonesense.. Have you ever herd of tarring up and gziping the file then email
it. I never have that problem with Evolution. Your friend can also download
7zip for Windows to open it.
JohnStanley
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