Why cant I properly attach images

Question

In Eudora for the Mac, Windows, Netscape, Microsoft Outlook 2003 (Windows) and such I could attach image files (without them showing up in the body of the message). However with Mail, I cannot do this. Everytime I attach a image using Mail, it always inserts them in the body of the message.
How can I fix this?
I usually use Outlook 2003 on my desktop work and Home PC's, however I grew up using Macs, and pop open my ibook every know and then and give it a go. Mail is okay. It cant compete with Outlook 2003 in many areas, howevever its a nice starter application.
Thanks,
John

Answer 1

Mail is okay. It cant compete with Outlook 2003 in many areas,
howevever its a nice starter application.
Mail is comparable to Outlook Express.
I use Windows Outlook at work which includes way too many options that I'll never need or use and IMO is the definition of a bloated application.
Regarding attachments with the Mail.app, the placement within the body of the message has NO effect/bearing on where the attachments appear on the recipient's end.
The Mail.app displays all image/photo and single page PDF attachments inline or viewed in place within the body of the message by default for sent and received messages which cannot be turned off.
You can control-click on a viewed in place attachment and select View as Icon (the icon will still be available in the message body which also cannot be changed) but regardless, depending on the recipient's email client and available preference settings, such attachments may appear inline or viewed in place within the body of the message when the message is opened by the recipient or as attached files only (the location of the attached file is determined by the recipient's email client) which must be opened separately to be viewed which the sender has no control over.
The reverse is true. With Outlook and the other applications you referenced, all attachments are placed in a "non text attachments field" but when sending image/photo or single page PDF attachments to a Mail.app user, these attachments will appear inline or viewed in place within the body of the message when the message is opened for which the sender has no control over. The attached files are also available in an Attachments line below the message header for saving the attachments to another location outside of the message.
This is a different but not a lacking feature with the Mail.app so there is nothing to fix. I prefer image/photo and single page PDF attachments appearing inline or viewed in place within the body of the message since it ensures I have selected the correct files before the message is sent which IMO is a lacking feature with Windows Outlook.