Obscure Outlook question

I use GIMP and scale the file. Easy.

I know nothing about ForteAgent, so can't answer the specific question. However I can recommend PowerToys:

I think that would depend on the email client, for example Claws-Mail asks if I want large files compressed before sending.

I should point out that compressing a .jpg doesn't usually help much, as it's a highly compressed format to begin with. Most graphics formats are. You gain most with text files, but they are not usually very big anyway.

Try making .zip or .bz7 files out of a few random .jpgs to see how much it helps. They may even get slightly larger due to the overhead of the compression method.

Sorry, this was my fault. The subject line was supposed to read 'Obscure Outlook question'

To reiterate, when using Outlook for emails I usually compress .jpg file attachments to avoid size problems when sending. This involves saving the draft, closing the draft, opening again, clicking 'File' then selecting 'Resize large images when I send this massage'. Is there a way of automating this as the default setting?

Don't know of a way inside outlook, but outside of outlook you could use Microsoft Powertoys, which gives image resize option from context menu in windows file explorer

Thanks. I have tried resizing in the past but the problem is that I don't know what the settings should be, which I assume Outlook knows.

I tried to install Powertoys from the Microsoft store earlier but it refused to download saying that my pc had an inadequate processor (or something like that).

AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor 2.80 GHz

Win 10 /32 Pro

I thought Powertoys had been around for ages ?.

Fine, but no-one has mentioned this "obscure word" yet.

As the OP who made the mistake, I have now tried to migrate this discussion to 'Obscure Outlook question'. Cambridge dictionary defines obscure as 'not clear and difficult to understand or see' which represents my user experience.

I get the impression the OP is using "compress" in the sense of make smaller by lowering the resolution, colour depth or image quality rather than applying actual data compression algorithm to the image data.

Indeed. Hence why throwing away 90% of the data can work better :-)

Ah, ok So add a bunch of large images to the message, and click send. Outlook will down scale them to "much smaller" when it sends the message.

For example, I just did a test in Outlook 2021, added a 4MB jpeg to a message and sent it to me. The message I received had a 160KB jpeg attached.

It has - although there have been some update activity recently after a long spell of nothing changing.

Try the older, long term stable version 0.87:

Sorry, as OP I messed this up. It was intended to be a question about Outlook and I wanted to make the standard Outlook method the default. Now in my new thread - Obscure Outlook question.

It looks like they haven't shipped a 32 bit version for a long time: