[CodeWarrior]

Luke-
     I was wondering if you can help provide some direction on this question:  Is it possible to add a picture to a personal message?
     I have searched all of the links at the bottom of this page.  The closest I came to an answer was with the Simple Machines Forum Online Manual under the "As a Regular User" section.  This link wasn't very helpful, other than I now know that users are limited to a paltry 4+ billion messages on the forum  (weak attempt at humor here).  I suspect it may not be possible to embed an image into a PM as the "Attachments and other options" link doesn't exist in PM's as it does in the regular forum message interface.  Any help you can lend would be greatly appreciated!

[jhamm]

Hi,
it is not possible...
A easy solution is, put the picture on a server an link this in the massage.

[CodeWarrior]

Thanks for helping me out with this.  Sounds like I'd have to go and set up a server to host pictures then.

[LukeZ]

Yeah, sorry for the slow reply, but that is not a feature of this forum software, nor do I think I've seen it on any other forum either, as it would raise all sorts of security issues.

I would suggest that if you are in contact with another user and want to send them a file, just exchange email addresses and then carry on the conversation that way.

[CodeWarrior]

Thanks Luke, appreciate it.  I'm guessing that SimpleMachines/Portal uses the same standardized set of icons for both forum and PM's even though not all actually work for PM's.

[LukeZ]

Yeah it's the same layout for both, but there are extra limitations on the PM side of things.

[CodeWarrior]

Just to add a (likely) final note to this topic as I used the following means to embed a personal picture into a PM (or any forum post as it turns out):

• Many email hosts will provide free storage for an account.  In my particular case I used Google which provides 15GB of free storage
• Navigate to your hosts photo section
  
• If there isn't one already create a "public" folder
• Upload the photo you want to share into that public folder
• Copy the image address of the photo
• Embed the image address into the PM

My thanks for jhamm and LukeZ for helping get me to this understanding.