Can't open my yahoo email attachments

First, the photo must be saved as a file you can open on your computer.

Next, open your Yahoo mail account and click Compose. When the new email screen opens, type in the recipients and a subject just like any other new email you want to send. At the bottom of the screen [next to the Send button] click on the paperclip icon. Then browse to the file you want to attach & click open.

After the file becomes attached, click Send.

When Yahoo was facing bankruptcy they fired their CEO and replaced him with very smart 39 year old named Marissa Myers from Google. She did a lot of really good things and Yahoo was definitely showing a sizable profit. Unfortunately she felt that Yahoo Mail Classic was not as good as Google's Gmail and she decided to remake Yahoo Mail to be like Gmail. There have been many problems since then. People's accounts or lists of contacts have disappeared, attachments first couldn't be made and now that they can be made they can't be opened. Hundreds of Thousand of complaints were made in the first week. Right now it's not you or the person sending you the attachments - it's the constantly patching going on that has made it impossible to open them. I can't. Fortunately I also have a Gmail account and am using that until the dust clears. It's a real shame - Yahoo Mail Classic was much nicer than Gmail.

With the Web-based Yahoo! Mail service, you can attach to your email message a saved Web page or another document in HyperText Markup Language format.
When you attach an HTML file in this way, Yahoo! Mail won't display the HTML content of the attached file in the email message body.
To view the attachment, you must click the attachment tab above the email message.Yahoo! Mail and HTML
Yahoo! Mail is a Web-based service and it's fully compatible with the coding languages used to design and display Web content, including HTML and XML, Extensible Markup Language.
This means emails sent or received in Rich text or HTML format include clickable hyperlinks, graphics and other Web design elements.
However, Yahoo! handles emails with HTML attachments in a different way to email messages formatted with HTML.

About Yahoo! Mail Attachments
Like most email programs and online services, Yahoo! Mail offers an attachment feature for adding images, video clips, audio files and HTML document to email messages.
Some email programs display the content of the attached file in the email message body, but Yahoo! Mail doesn't provide this feature for any file attachment, whether it's an image, video clip or HTML document.


Viewing Yahoo! Mail Attachments When you attach an HTML document or another file to your Yahoo! Mail message, an "Attachments" button labeled with a "Paperclip" icon appears below the email address fields and above the email message body.
Clicking the "Attachments" button opens a pane containing a list of all files attached to the email. The email sender or recipient can open each attachment to view the files by clicking the file name.

Considerations

When sending a Yahoo! Mail with an attachment, always explain the content of the attachment in the main body of the email message.
A brief explanation will encourage the recipient to click and open the attachment to view the HTML document.
Bear in mind that many email services automatically block HTML attachments because of the security risk of opening HTML files, which can contain viruses, phishing scams or open Web pages with inappropriate content.
If you want to share a favorite Web page with a friend or contact, include a hyperlink to the Web page rather than a saved copy as an HTML attachment.

Your default email might need to be changed

Open up your new email type in the adress then you should see attachment depending on which email you are using select attachment then you will open up a browse window navigate to your photo/attachment where you have saved it (my pictures) most common select it you might have to wait a few seconds for it to load as an attachment then click send Hope this helps.

try this go to yahoo & typr in your yahoo ID
then in the same menu box toward the bottom
look for CAN'T ACCESS MY ACCOUNT & follow the prompts

Going to need more information than that.

But generally this is just yahoo's security feature that doesn't allow you to open attachments from unknown sources. Add the person's email address to your contacts list and see if that doesn't solve it.

An expert wouldn't be able to fix the problem. The problem lies on the Yahoo end, and they will not be changing this any time soon.

Unless they work out these bugs, people will be stuck with the issues they're facing. Yahoo will not be changing back to the old version either.

Sorry about that.
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Dear, when u will Sign in Yahoo, so when u will click in inbox , then you will see yours Mails, after that when u click on mail, then its opens ,and front of screen , u will see your files which is attach in the mail.

Hi,
Welcome to Fixya. Yes you can upgrade your regular YahooMail to YahooMail Plus for $19.99 per month
Yahoo Mail Plus Upgrade
If you want to use your Yahoo Email to send iPhoto you can use the guide on the link below. Watch the video and it will teach you on how to do it. For yahoo just select attach files.
How to Attach iPhoto using your Webmail
If you have questions please let me know. Thanks

Hi,

Sending an email is a very easy task. To open yahoomail, click on www.yahoomail.com

On the top-right side, below the Yahoo!'s logo, click on the button labeled "New"

On the box labeled "To", enter the email address of the person you want to send the mail. You can write the Subject on the box labeled "Subject".

Once done, writeup your mail on the Space provided below. When done, just hit the Send button. You can also attach files using the Attach button.

Hope this solves your problem. Thanks for using Fixya.