Sending jpg attachments to AOL subscribers

HI all!
I'm consistently unable to send jpg pictures as attachments to friends with @aol.com email addresses. They tell me that the picture numbers come through but no picture. When I send the attachments (and verify in the "sent" box), the picture are definitely attached to the email. Friends not with AOL get things no problem.
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks
Stephen Lewis3

Hi Allan, I hope toy don't mind me cc'ing a post I put up earliet - but saw this and could see that the problem is related: "This problem is going to really mess up my recent migration to Macintosh. I prepare a lot of documents in Word and Excel and am careful to append them with .doc and .xls before emailing them to clients and colleagues - all of who are Windows users. One colleague - a senior who calls the shots uses an AOL account and email. I have never had a problem sending .doc and .xls attachments to him but he is now saying that the .doc's and some of the .xls's are arriving as un-open-able .bin files. This is a real bugger. I have tried the 'send Windows friendly attachment' button in iMail but it makes no difference. I have looked at other posts which point the problem back to AOL - but Windows users do not have the problem. Is there a viable solution to this problem because my colleague absolutely will not ditch AOL".
I send email from iMail using plain text. The AOL recipient says he is now able to open .pdf (but the filename gets changed in transit) and .xls (no probs). He can open .doc by using the 'open with' command. The file name is shortened and the suffix is removed. Any suggestions gratefully received.

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