On 30 November 2012 21:28, Adrian Midgley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

On 30 November 2012 20:25, Mary Hawking <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> As a result, not only is the attachment deletated, but it appears that the
> whole email is deleted – and the sender is not notified. (having problems
> with appraisal documents).

Solution: encrypt them with GnuPG, selecting the ASCII armor option.
Once turned into text you can email them as text, and the recipient
merely needs to install GnuPG or PGP and have told you the private
key to encrypt to.

There are unencrypted ways to serialise a picture as text as well.

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