Dragging photos to email them gives recipient error

Just upgraded to Yosemite 10.10 and iPhoto 9.6 (910.29), both current as of this writing.
I did what I often to do email a photo: selected it in iPhoto and dragged the image to the Apple Mail icon. The picture appeared normally and emailed normally, but I got an error from the recipient, who said the "attachment was unavailable". I have double-checked that the picture is OK. And, of course, it works just fine to send it to myself.
Thanks for advice.

I tried exporting the picture and then explicitly mailing it; I also used the Mail media browser.
Sounds like it's not really my problem. The recipient uses Yahoo Mail, which instead of showing a preview as normal, shows a blank box, but gives her the option to download the picture, which can be downloaded and then separately viewed.
So something changed, but I'm not sure whether it had to do with the changes to Mail in Yosemite or a coincidental change with Yahoo Mail.
Thx anyway.

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