Using iPhoto To Email Photos

I've had all sorts of problems sending photos to people via iPhoto 6. If, for instance, I just drag the photos out of iPhoto and drop them into an email all seems to go well. Captions, for instance, stay under the photos in their proper place, and everyone gets the photos. When, on the other hand, I send photos via the Email Photos option in iPhoto all sorts of problems develop.
For instance, people with AOL email accounts sometimes get the photos and sometimes don't. People with web based email accounts like Yahoo, MyWay, etc. get the photos but each photo arrives as a separate attachment and the captions wind up not even in the neighborhood of the photos they belong to.
As with so many things related to computers I have no idea what iPhoto is doing behind the scenes when I ask it to email photos so it's tough to be able to figure out what is causing various problems. My "guess" is that iPhoto is compressing the jpgs because photos sent via iPhoto "medium size" are much smaller than those dragged into an email and sized medium via the selection box at the lower right corner of the email. But why do folks using web-based email accounts like Yahoo wind up with numerous attachments seperated from their captions.
Thanks!

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
You’re assembling RTF emails in Mail and you’re wasting your time because the folks on webmail simply do not have the capability to display it. You’re not doing anything wrong, it’s just web mail is pretty basic and doesn’t support rtf.
As for the folks on AOL well that’s going to be down to the settings on their end.
Remember, you really have no control whatever on how an email will display on someone else’s machine. It’s entirely in the hands of their settings and their service.
Regards
TD

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