We all have faced this issue at some point of time - sending emails with missing file attachments.Not only is this frustrating, it can sometimes land you in very embarrassing situations.
Imagine your boss waiting for the sales report, you had sent the email message but forgot to include the attachment and left for the day.
There's some good hope for us forgetful souls. Matthew Baldwin has some simple but brilliant advice for us in Trade Tricks:
If you are sending an email with an attachment, add the attachment first, then compose the message, and then add email addresses to the send line.
Now there's no chance you'll have to send the ever-popular "whoops, forgot to attach the file" follow-up.
In fact, it's a good practice to always put the email addresses of the recipients in last, to ensure that an errant carriage return or mouse click won't fire off the message half-baked.
Find this article at: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/04/never-forget-to-include-email.html
web: http://www.labnol.org/ email: amit@labnol.org
Reader Comments
If you are using MS Outlook Express, Options/Send has a checkbox for "Send messages immediately". I have this turned off - which gives me a 2nd chance to do a final scan/proofread while the message is still sitting in the Outbox before manually clicking to send. I also have Options/General "Send and receive messages at startup" unselected to retain manual control.
Written on 20/4/07 9:51 PM
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/2419
Written on 20/4/07 5:44 PM
This greasemonkey extension will be useful when using GMail
Written on 20/4/07 5:43 PM
Yes! This is the safe way. It has to be done like this only. Make it a habit.
Written on 20/4/07 5:12 PM
Or use an email program like Pegasus that asks you whether you meant to add an attachment if your email message has words like "attached" or "attachment" in it. Brilliant feature - should be in every email program.
Written on 26/4/07 5:46 PM