send compressed folder mail recipient

Can someone confirm if this is my setup or not....
Right click on a folder and choose "Send To - Mail Recipient" appears to add each file within the folder as separate attachements. Fair enough.
Try this with a compressed folder (aka ZIP file) and I get one of two errors; if the compressed folder contains files then you get a blank e-mail with no attachments.... If the compressed folder contains only folders (ie. no files at the root level) then Windows Mail throws an error "No files found to e-mail". I'd have thought it should just attach the ZIP file?
Thanks, Richard.

You cannot send a folder (compressed or not). You can send a zipped file which may contain many files within it, but you cannot send a folder. If you attempt to send a folder, all that will be attached is a link to that folder which can only be found on your computer, and as such, it is worthless to any mail recipient. -- Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6 Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
<Richard Green> wrote in message

Can someone confirm if this is my setup or not....
Right click on a folder and choose "Send To - Mail Recipient" appears to add each file within the folder as separate attachements. Fair enough.
Try this with a compressed folder (aka ZIP file) and I get one of two errors; if the compressed folder contains files then you get a blank e-mail with no attachments.... If the compressed folder contains only folders (ie. no files at the root level) then Windows Mail throws an error "No files found to e-mail". I'd have thought it should just attach the ZIP file?
Thanks, Richard.

Sorry, I didn't make myself clear.... I wasn't trying to send a compressed folder at all; I was trying to send a ZIP file, but as Windows insists on showing these as "compressed folders" it amounts to the same thing.
I'm pointing out that you cannot send a ZIP file by right clicking on it and choosing "Send To - Mail Recipient"; you have to start an e-mail and then browse for the ZIP file to add as an attachment.
"Jim Pickering" wrote in message

You cannot send a folder (compressed or not). You can send a zipped file which may contain many files within it, but you cannot send a folder. If you attempt to send a folder, all that will be attached is a link to that folder which can only be found on your computer, and as such, it is worthless to any mail recipient. -- Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6 Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
Richard Green> wrote in message Can someone confirm if this is my setup or not....
Right click on a folder and choose "Send To - Mail Recipient" appears to add each file within the folder as separate attachements. Fair enough.
Try this with a compressed folder (aka ZIP file) and I get one of two errors; if the compressed folder contains files then you get a blank e-mail with no attachments.... If the compressed folder contains only folders (ie. no files at the root level) then Windows Mail throws an error "No files found to e-mail". I'd have thought it should just attach the ZIP file?
Thanks, Richard.

Make sure that your SendTo folder has a zero byte folder named Mail Recipient.MAPIMail
-- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM Reply in newsgroup "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security"
"Richard Green" wrote in message

Sorry, I didn't make myself clear.... I wasn't trying to send a compressed folder at all; I was trying to send a ZIP file, but as Windows insists on showing these as "compressed folders" it amounts to the same thing.
I'm pointing out that you cannot send a ZIP file by right clicking on it and choosing "Send To - Mail Recipient"; you have to start an e-mail and then browse for the ZIP file to add as an attachment.
"Jim Pickering" wrote in message You cannot send a folder (compressed or not). You can send a zipped file which may contain many files within it, but you cannot send a folder. If you attempt to send a folder, all that will be attached is a link to that folder which can only be found on your computer, and as such, it is worthless to any mail recipient.
Richard Green> wrote in message Can someone confirm if this is my setup or not....
Right click on a folder and choose "Send To - Mail Recipient" appears to add each file within the folder as separate attachements. Fair enough.
Try this with a compressed folder (aka ZIP file) and I get one of two errors; if the compressed folder contains files then you get a blank e-mail with no attachments.... If the compressed folder contains only folders (ie. no files at the root level) then Windows Mail throws an error "No files found to e-mail". I'd have thought it should just attach the ZIP file?