Can't attach folder to email..!

[Peter Jason]

Win7 SP1 Outlook10

I have to send groups of images, and I want a
folder for each set.

 

[VanguardLH]

Win7 SP1 Outlook10

I have to send groups of images, and I want a folder for each set.

Nope, you cannot attach folders. There are no such thing as folders as
attachments. ALL email, and I mean them ALL, get sent as plain text,
including any attachments. Those aren't floating in the ether
somewhere. They get converted into a long text string that is
"attached" by adding a MIME part into the body of the e-mail. So the
whole e-mail, whether HTML, RTF, with binary attachments, or whatever,
gets sent as plain text.

Folders aren't object that can be converted into encoded strings in a
MIME part. You could zip up the folder (i.e., create a .zip with all
the folder's contents, including files and subfolders with their files)
and then attach that .zip file to your e-mail. For N folders, create N
..zip files with all their contents, and attach those N .zip files to
your e-mail.

 

[Peter Jason]

Nope, you cannot attach folders. There are no such thing as folders as
attachments. ALL email, and I mean them ALL, get sent as plain text,
including any attachments. Those aren't floating in the ether
somewhere. They get converted into a long text string that is
"attached" by adding a MIME part into the body of the e-mail. So the
whole e-mail, whether HTML, RTF, with binary attachments, or whatever,
gets sent as plain text.

Folders aren't object that can be converted into encoded strings in a
MIME part. You could zip up the folder (i.e., create a .zip with all
the folder's contents, including files and subfolders with their files)
and then attach that .zip file to your e-mail. For N folders, create N
.zip files with all their contents, and attach those N .zip files to
your e-mail.

Thanks, I guess I'll do that then.
Peter