How do I keep attached photos out of an email's body?

[John]

When I receive JPEG or other picture files in Outlook 2003, the image
automatically shows up in the body of the message. I want to save these
images as files. How do I get them to appear as attachments that I can
download instead? When they are in the body of the message, I can only save
them as a bitmap image -- not the original format that I need.

 

[VanguardLH]

John wrote (in

When I receive JPEG or other picture files in Outlook 2003, the image
automatically shows up in the body of the message. I want to save these
images as files. How do I get them to appear as attachments that I can
download instead? When they are in the body of the message, I can only save
them as a bitmap image -- not the original format that I need.

They are already downloaded. Attachments aren't floating out on the web
somewhere separate of the e-mail. They are *in* the e-mail as MIME
parts where the original file got encoded into text characters within
that MIME part. So if you downloaded the e-mail then you already have
the attachments.

That they show up inside the body of the e-mail means they are linked
images or the sender used RTF (rich-text format) which is not
recommended unless sender and receipient are both using Outlook and both
are within the same Exchange organization.

Saving non-bitmap image files where only bitmap is available for the
saved file may be problem with your temp file cache (for IE). Read
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810978. How do you know they are not
..bmp files rather than .jpg files?

 

[Brian Tillman]

When I receive JPEG or other picture files in Outlook 2003, the image
automatically shows up in the body of the message. I want to save
these images as files. How do I get them to appear as attachments
that I can download instead? When they are in the body of the
message, I can only save them as a bitmap image -- not the original
format that I need.

See if this helps:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/saveembeddedpictures.htm