oh and the “large, fullsize” image is 160K, 744×576 pixels, 96 dpi.
nvm, duh – one has to get the “normal” email via wp functional first. Hope this helps another WP newbie – I ended up using the “Configure SMTP” plugin and was able to receive a test email. I chose that plugin so that I could use TLS and smtp auth with our smtp server.
Anyway, next problem: I am not getting and update on newer plugins, even though the plugins are out of date…..
