glenn b said:
Thanks for the quick response to my problem. It appears that
Microsoft built
its program for those passing e-mails/photos amongst family and
friends.. and
not for those of us sending photos with articles for publication.
Now, if I download and install bxAutoZip does that mean everything
that I
send via e-mail will be zipped and thus require all receivers to
un-zip ...
or is there an "options" included ... as you may have guessed by now
I am not
familiar with the "zipping" process. Again thanks for your help.
All files that get attached will get put into a single .zip file that
actually gets attached to the e-mail. You can set a threshold that
files below N bytes in size will not get automatically compressed into
a .zip attachment. I think the default is 50KB but I changed it to
100KB (even dial-up users should be able to handle that size before
having to use compression).
You can also specify which filetypes NOT to compress into a .zip
archive file. There would be no point in compressing a .zip file
(i.e., it is already compressed, and compressing a compressed file
often results in *enlarging* its size). JPEGs are usually already
compressed (although you can often select the level of compression in
whatever tool you use to create the .jp[e]g file depending on how
lossy you want the compression). .arc, .rar, .gz (UNIX gunzip), .lha,
and other compressed archive filetypes are also excluded. You can
modify or add to the exclusion list.
If Outlook - whatever version you are using - is automatically
reducing the quality of JPEG (or other normally incompressible file
formats) when you attach them then maybe you want to use bxAutoZip.
It won't do much, if anything, to compress the nearly incompressible
file but it will shove it inside a .zip file which would prevent
Outlook from modifying that graphic file.
If you don't want bxAutoZip to automatically the non-excluded
filetypes that are over your specified size threshold then configure
it to NOT automatically zip up the attachments. You can attach your
files and then decide on a per-mail basis whether to run bxAutoZip to
rollup all the attached files into a single .zip attachment.
Yes, whenever you compress files into an archive file, like a .zip
file, the recipient will need the proper tools to decompress the
archive file. If they are using Windows XP, or later, then .zip
support is already included. There are lots of freebie utilities to
do zipping/unzipping, like 7-zip. It's pretty hard to use Windows for
very long without soon requiring, at least, an unzipping tool, so it
is highly likely your recipients already can unzip your .zip
attachments.
