E-mailing photos from PSE 5

[Shari]

Has anybody had any trouble with this?? I have been e-mailing photos from organizer. A couple of them were photos that were e-mailed to me and I put them into PSE5 and made them into Christmas cards for some of the kids. I wondered why I had not heard any comments. They did not receive them. I got no notification that the mail was returned. I sent a few to my husband. One he received - one he did not. Both sent the same way. I remember when PSE3 was not working and I had to send my photos by forwarding. I thought PSE5 was OK. Is it just me or anyone else noticed problems. Thanks.
Shari

[Shari]

It seems no one else has had this problem. I sent a photo to myself and when it came it had spam: before the subject. Can someone please explain to me an easy way to send photos from PSE5. When I send them as an attachment they are far too big and I don't know how to make them smaller. The other thing I find is that some of the photos that I have edited and are in my organizer I cannot find under 'my pictures' when wanting to e-mail. I know I am missing something simple because I used to send photos all the time before PSE. Any comments appreciated. Thanks.
Shari

[TonyW]

Shari: Look under preferences in the Organizer under sharing and see what Email Client you have set up. If you use either Outlook or Outlook Express for email set it to that. Then when you click the email icon in Editor or Organizer you can add contacts and send it as an attachment - there are sliders to adjust the file size.

Tony

PS I can't remember whether the forwarding thing got fixed - mine works fine but I may have fixed it myslef. If you have a problem let me know and I'll find the fix.

[Shari]

Thanks for your reply Tony. Yes, I had set correctly in preferences. What I cannot figure out is that the photos I am sending are showing up in my "sent" e-mail but are not coming to my in box (when sending to myself testing). One did come through out of four but it had spam: in front of the subject. Why would it do that and do you know how I could get rid of "spam". Since I have had PSE5 it now appears that people have not been receiving my photos. I really am frustrated now. I would appreciate your help after Christmas. The next few days I am going to be really busy as you probably are too. I know how to send a photo as an attachment but as I said then they are too big. It is also a pain. I liked to be able to send from the organizer and then adding whatever I wanted. I also think Santa is bringing me a new camera for Christmas and I will be very frustrated if I cannot e-mail my photos. Thanks a lot.
Shari

Merry Christmas - I hear you are having a green one also this year!!

[genevh]

Sounds like you may have some more problems on your PC than just sending pictures from PSE5 if you are getting spam sent out on your emails. Some housecleaning may be in order, including scanning your PC for spyware, etc and cleaning it up. A couple of good utilities for doing that (and they are free!) are Spybot Search and Destroy: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html and Ad-Aware SE: http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10045910.html?part=dl-ad-aware&subj=dl&tag=top5
I also use Webroot SpySweeper, along with Norton Security and so far :eek: have had no major problems. Run the Spybot and Ad-Aware and let them clean up whatever they find. You may be surprised at what you may find!

I have found Picasa is the easiest program to use for emailing pictures. It automatically resizes them for you so they can be easily emailed.

Hope this helps!!!
Gene
- working the night shift

[NickLewis]

Shari,

The text "spam:" in front of the subject line of your emails is probably being placed there by your Internet Service Provider's spam filtering software, or by your email client, because one or other of them have decided that the email may be spam.

That may also be the reason that some of the emails are not arriving. They may have been completely trapped by your ISP's spam filter. To check that, you'll probably need to log on to your email account via its web interface, and look in your "Bulk" or "Spam" folders, which is where supposed spam is dropped.

There are basically two reasons why the software may have flagged the emails as spam. The worst case is what Gene is referring to, which is that your machine may have become infected by something unpleasant, and may genuinely contain spam.

But it may also be because the software is set too sensitively, and is trapping genuine, harmless emails. This happens to me quite frequently, especially with emails that contain nothing but an attachment. (A not uncommon way of distributing dodgy content.)

I'd check up on the second possibility before panicking.....

Nick

[kayser]

For what it's worth- I am able to email from PSE5, and I didn't have to do the fix that everyone was doing for earlier versions. I've been changing the subjects when I send from the generic one that it defaults to, and I haven't had it come to me with the spam/anti-spam header.

[Shari]

Thank you Nick, Gene and Kay. I only got Gene's e-mail as notification. Don't know why. Nick I will try what you said. I have Webroot and Trend Pc-cillen. Last year about this time I had some problems with adware and when they fixed my computer I spent a lot on my new protection. This does not happen all the time. The last few photos I have sent to someone I have also forwarded to myself. Sometimes it comes headed spam:subject and sometimes not. For the next while I am asking for a receipt so I can tell if people are actually getting what I send them. (If they care to answer that). Once I feel a bit better I will spend some time checking out again. Thanks for your replies. Always something. I get some new thing mastered and then something else crops up!!!
Shari