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Attache the photos you want to send in the normal way.

Click New Emailand attach the usual address information and subject.

The one advantage it brings is the ability to reduce your photo size “on the fly” rather than as a separate process in Picasa (or similar). This workaround is just as effective BUT you will have to remember to do it every time you email photographs. Our Managing the Data Course will introduce you to Microsoft’s OneDrive Cloud Storage and all the cool things you can do with it. Upload images of your holiday or grandkids into a folder and then share the folder with your friends and family.

Learn how to use your free OneDrive Cloud Storage (you have 5Gb available).

You can see the size of the attached images as you create your email so you can do the maths as you go – 1024kb=1Mb This is fine albeit a little annoying for the person at the other end when their intray fills up with messages from you.

Send lots of emails with 3 or 4 pictures each.

Our Managing Photos Course will teach you how to do this in Microsoft Photos If the people you are sending them to only want to see them on a screen or tablet, then 1024 pixels along the long edge will render a perfect image at the other end with a drastically reduced file size.

Use a program like Picasa to reduce them in size.

If you want to attach more photos, you have options

Emails generally shouldn’t exceed about 5Mb in size so attaching more than 3 or 4 photos from a modern camera or smartphone is all you can do. That’s it! However, there’s one caveat with this option.

Return to Windows Live Mail and send your email.

Remove the tick from the box beside the option – if there’s already a tick, click on it once to make it disappearĬonvert messages to photo emails when adding pictures.

Select Mailfrom the top of the pop-up menu.

The Long Term SolutionĮssentially, you just turn off the Photo Album feature and all attachments will be sent as email attachments (like every other email client does!). There is however a solution and a workaround we’d like to share with our members. Recently this mechanism has stopped working and the email gets stuck in the Outbox blocking up everything! Microsoft appears to have stopped supporting Windows Live Mail and have not issued a fix for this problem. If you attach more than one photograph to a Windows Live Mail email it automatically puts them into a Photo Album on OneDrive and sends a link to the email recipients. This is an important Technical Update for members using Windows Live Mail (on any Operating System – Win 7, 8.1 or 10).