Working Safely With Email Attachments

Avoiding Computer Viruses Receiving Attachments Downloading Non-Image Attachments Viewing Image Attachments Sending Attachments

Sending Attachments With Outgoing Email Messages

You can send all types of files as attachments, including word processor or spreadsheet documents, audio files, image files (such as .bmp, .jpg, .gif), web pages saves as HTML files, and more.

After you log in to your AT&T Mail account, simply compose your message and add your attachment.

Tip: With AT&T Mail, effective email virus protection is automatic. Anti-virus software in AT&T Mail automatically detects and cleans viruses in incoming and outgoing email and attachments.

Please be aware, however, that not all viruses can be detected and cleaned. Downloading email attachments to your computer or sending email attachments to others can be risky. As provided in the Terms of Service, neither Yahoo! nor its licensors are responsible for any damages caused by your decision to do so.

 

Here’s How

  1. Open AT&T Mail.

  2. Click the New button.

    Click the New button.

    The new email message tab appears.

  3. Click the Attach button.

    Click the Attach button.

    The Choose File or Open File window appears (depending on your operating system).

  4. Locate the file you want to attach, select it, and click the Open button.

    Tip: You should double-check the specific files you want to attach before starting your email message, since you can’t view and verify most kinds of attached files within the browser window.

    Select the file to attach, then click the Open button.Enlarge

    You return to the email message tab, which displays the progress of automatic Norton AntiVirus™ scan of the selected file.

    Norton AntiVirus automatically scans the attached file.Enlarge

    Tip: Norton AntiVirus™ doesn’t let you to attach infected files.

  5. To attach more files, repeat steps 2 and 3.

    A message with multiple attachments

    Tips:

    You can’t attach the same file more than once to the same email message. You also can’t attach multiple files in one operation, or a folder containing multiple files.

    Although AT&T Mail often shows attached images and HTML files within the messages you receive, it doesn’t display the files you attach within a message while you’re composing it. Instead, it lists the files in the attachments area. Attached images and HTML may appear within the text of the message when your recipients read it if their email applications support inline graphics and HTML content.

  6. If you decide not to include an attached file before you send the message, just click the Remove link to detach it.

    Click the Remove link to detach a file.

 

What’s Next

After one or more files are attached, you can finish addressing, composing, and sending the message as you normally would.

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Words to Know

  • Attachment: a separate file included as part of an email message; for example, a multimedia or document file.
  • Cleaning: removing a virus or other infection from your computer.
  • Download: to transfer a file from a remote computer to your computer.
  • Scan: the process of checking files to see if they contain known viruses or other types of nuisance software.
  • Virus: a computer program that attaches itself to other programs and causes harm to computer software, data, and/or hardware, often undetected until it’s too late.