Emailed photos very pixelated/grainy

I have always been able to download emailed photos into Iphoto without issue. Last week, everything I downloaded was very pixelated/grainy. Has this happened to anyone else? Any advice?

fane_j wrote:
Shootist007 wrote:
Actually you can send any size file you want up to the size your ISP and or email provider allows to be attached/sent with an email.
There is a difference between what one can do, what one should do, and what is good manners to do.
See #16 here
<http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/~davidt/email_etiquette.htm>
or just google e-mail and netiquette.
Etiquette Shmediquette if I want to send someone an image of good size for whatever reason, like they may want to print the image, I will do that.
This may not pertain to why the OP is sending larger images then the recipient may need. I don't know that. But just because someone says I should send smaller images because of their opinion about email eitquette doesn't make it mandatory. Which was my point.
No need to google anything. I don't send emails with attachments for no reason to anyone.
It an ISP or mail provider doesn't want you to send larger files then they will limit the size of the file attachment and reject it based on that. As they already do. Most have an email file size limit of 10MB.
This may of been a issue back in the days of slow dialup and low Boardband speeds but not today.
Thanks.

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