Problem emailing photos

I have been emailing photos with iPhoto for a year (since I bought my iMac) with no problems at all. Recently, when I try to email a photo, I select the size in iPhoto (e.g. Medium), Mail opens, the correct size photo flashes in the mail message and is immediately replaced by a mini thumbnail. The image size within Mail is set to Medium, but it's not working as the mini thumbnail is not Medium.
If I toggle the size setting within Mail to another size, then back to Medium, it seems to work. A medium-sized photo appears to be embedded in the mail message. However, when I tested this (sent the message to myself) the email I received only included the mini thumbnail again. (There was a separate attachment with the photo at the correct size.)
Any ideas how to correct this?
P.S. My mail is set to compose in Rich text and should embed the photos (as it did for the past year). I suspect there is a bug in Mail due to a software update....

I was also having this problem. Did a little sleuthing in Help. Here's the solution:
Add the photo to the email (using iphoto or any other method).
At the bottom of the new message screen there is a small text box/pop-up menu; it says "Image size" and then there are 4 pop up choices -- small, medium, large, actual size. Pick the one you want & voila!
Once I changed that pop up choice to "actual size" in the email program, it defaulted to that chosen size the next time I tried to share a photo via email using iphoto (or even when simply attaching directly through the email program). Prior to discovering this setting, no matter what size I chose in iPhoto, the photo was sizing as "small" - so mail was overriding the iphoto choice. Now, no more problem!

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