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robinhooddaffy
10-15-2009, 07:51 PM
I have received a couple of emails that have pics. viewed them through the Iphone mail program. My email is with Gmail. when I forward them to others, it asks if I want to include attachments and I say yep, and choose the receivers and send. they get the email words but no pics. what do I need to do for them to get the pics.
Mickeylittle
10-15-2009, 07:59 PM
Do their phones or whatever have the ability to receive pictures? Have you tried send them to your PC? That would show you that the problem is not with your phone.
robinhooddaffy
10-15-2009, 08:10 PM
i know 2 of them went to pc's.
Mickeylittle
10-15-2009, 08:23 PM
Try this just to see. Take a photo with your phone real quick, save it to the camera roll, and then open it and then email it to your PC. If that works then it's not your phone. If it doesn't work then it maybe something wrong with gmail or a setting on your phone.
robinhooddaffy
10-15-2009, 08:37 PM
Ok I clicked on a photo and sent it to myself. I checked it on my iPhone and it was there. I then forwarded it to myself from my iPhone, included attachments and hit send. Got it and opened it on my iPhone, no pic just a blue box with a question mark.
abricaf
10-15-2009, 09:05 PM
i know 2 of them went to pc's.
Glad to hear you're using this: I plan to keep it much more aggressively up-to-date than has been the case in the past, but don't hesitate to let me know if you find errors or need clarifications.:dft008:suprised
Mickeylittle
10-15-2009, 09:18 PM
How long has it been since you've shut your phone down and then restarted it? If that doesn't help I would delete the gmail account from settings and then add it back.
robinhooddaffy
10-15-2009, 09:22 PM
Mickeylittle.......I know this is a stupid question but can you email a pic to your phone then forward it to yourself and receive the pic?
GADeputy
10-15-2009, 09:52 PM
This isn't a Gmail problem. I have had the same problem ever since I got the first version iPhone and still have it on my 3G. It also happens to 3 of my friends that have iphones and none of us use the same email provider.
Mickeylittle
10-15-2009, 10:07 PM
Daffy I just opened a pic from my carera roll on my 3GS and chose to email it to my phone's email (yahoo). I received the email and the pic was totally viewable. So yes it is working for me. Did you try to power down and then to reinstall gmail? If that doesn't help try a yahoo account and then you will be sure of what the problem is.
GADeputy
10-15-2009, 11:07 PM
Daffy I just opened a pic from my carera roll on my 3GS and chose to email it to my phone's email (yahoo). I received the email and the pic was totally viewable. So yes it is working for me. Did you try to power down and then to reinstall gmail? If that doesn't help try a yahoo account and then you will be sure of what the problem is.

Now take that email and forward it to yourself. When it arrives the picture won't be viewable. The problem only happens when you forward an email.
Mickeylittle
10-15-2009, 11:54 PM
Sorry but that works too. I opened the email with the picture, tapped on the arrow on the bottom next to the start new email icon, chose forward, chose include attachment, and hit send. Then hit refresh and received the email from me and the picture open right up.
BrownGem
10-23-2009, 09:59 AM
I tried this to see if I could duplicate the problem. The forwarded pic is viewable on the iphone but would not open on my desktop client. I use Yahoo and Comcast accounts.
Edit: The forwarded mail on the desktop client shows a box with red x in the body but the picture is there in the attachment line so it does work either way.