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Carolyn

Hello

I have an existing e mail account and I use yahoo to send and receive e
mails. ..but when i want to send a picture or a file on the internet, there
is always a facility that asks me if I want to compress or reduce the size
of the file for e mailing .....and I really do want to ...but when I click
on it it asks for my user name etc and the when it gets to the bit about
POP3 or something similar, i have to just close it as i have no idea where
to find this information. Please help.

Thanks

carolyn
 
Are you a Yahoo Plus subscriber?

Is the latest version of Yahoo Toolbar installed?
 
Carolyn said:
Hello

I have an existing e mail account and I use yahoo to send and receive e
mails. ..but when i want to send a picture or a file on the internet, there
is always a facility that asks me if I want to compress or reduce the size
of the file for e mailing .....and I really do want to ...but when I click
on it it asks for my user name etc and the when it gets to the bit about
POP3 or something similar, i have to just close it as i have no idea where
to find this information. Please help.

Thanks

carolyn
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If you are trying to send a picture directly from the "Pictures" folder, Windows Vista (all prior versions) assume you want to use your default email program. This would be a POP (Post Office Protocol) email client. Example POP clients are Windows Mail or Windows Live, or Thunderbird for Vista.
The free Yahoo in the USA is not a POP service and cannot be configured as a default POP client.
You used a @btinternet.com address for this post. Have you setup your @btinternet.com in Windows Mail?
If so you could then make it the default and do what your want.
By the way, never-never post your real email address with these newsgroups. It is a sure way to get on a spammer's list.
 
You didn't say so, but it sounds like you normally use Yahoo's webmail
with your browser, rather than an email program like Windows Mail.
The picture resizing facility that comes with Windows will only work
with desktop email programs, not webmail. You may want to get a
third party picture resizer like IrfanView:
http://www.irfanview.com/
 
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