Email photos from iPhoto creates blank attachments

I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I cannot find a thread on it. How come whenever I email photos from iPhoto it sends along a blank attachment to go along with every photo I send? I have my mail options set to "always send windows friendly attachments".
Thanks for the help.

Hi Joe,
That's the resource fork. Don't know why it does that, but you can strip the resource fork before you send the images. You would have to share/export the image, then strip the fork (using something like GrimRipperCM), then attach to mail.
Or just tell the recipients to disregard the blank attachment.

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