I have a mystery. Photos in emails to our group are being resized to 640 pixels, despite our setting to “Resize to 2048 pixels.” ?(I’m only interested in email deliveries, most all our subscribers use the group through email, not the web)

Here’s that panel in my settings (screenshot):

Our text: Sending photos of 2000 pixels and 1340 pixels get resized to 640.?

Any ideas?

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On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 05:12 PM, Richard Karash wrote:

I have a mystery. Photos in emails to our group are being resized to 640 pixels, despite our setting to “Resize to 2048 pixels.”

Embedded images are always resized to 640 px in the long dimension. If you don't want that to happen, you have to attach them.

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Regards,

Bruce

Bruce?

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wow, no idea that was default.?
are you saying “long” as in landscape so that it fits better in a message or even if “long” is the portrait direction?

On Sun, Apr 6, 2025 at 07:59 PM, KWKloeber wrote:

wow, no idea that was default.?

I wouldn't call it a "default," as there's no way to change it.

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I've seen no definitive statement from groups.io management as to why this is so, but I suspect it stems from the fact that embedded/inline photos are always displayed. In the course of browsing messages, I wouldn't want scroll bars popping up and menu items getting pushed off the page. Even if resized "on the fly" to fit in the screen's container, it still has to be downloaded in its entirety, and a 2048x2048 image (like Richard wants to allow) could take a long time to display (depending on file format). The bandwidth required to do this might also be a problem for those on a slow/metered connection.?

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Taken together, allowing big inline images does seem like it could be the source of an unpleasant user experience.?

are you saying “long” as in landscape so that it fits better in a message or even if “long” is the portrait direction?

It will be scaled down to fit within a 640x640 box. Landscape or portrait does not matter.

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Regards,

Bruce