Image size incorrectly in Mail

Hello!
I have a problem with mail since Mountain Lion. The problem is on all my Macs traceable and probably not an individual problem.
The following procedure:
- I open my mail and create a new mail
- From the Finder I pull into an image, for example, 2 MB
- The image is sent at the end of the message and Windows compatible
- I put on original size
I close my mail, because until now it's correct.
Now I create an e-mail again and draw the same picture in again, another picture does not change the behavior:
Mail does say it is the original size of the image, the image has only 10 KB According status bar in mail.
Thus, the image is of course the recipient accordingly small and not useful.
Only the adjustment of size to medium and back to original size makes the image on the full 1 MB back.
During the entire operation, but the picture shows me mail on my Mac in the large size of optically.
Can understand someone or is there a solution?
Thank you!
Greetings
Dominik
This Image has 151 KB and it's shown as 10 KB in Actual Size...

The appearance will vary depending on the picture content, but if you start of with a big picture (3000x2000 pixels) and reduce it to 320x240 you are throwing out a lot of pixels. I would suggest going for the medium (640x480) or even the large (1280x960) if you want to preserve any picture quality.
When I am sending a picture I generally use scaling in GraphicConverter first.
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