Q: Why do the attachments I'm trying to send open in the body of my email rather than as an attachment icon?

There is nothing wrong. I never understood why Apple Mail shows attachments randomly as icon or inline documents or a mix of them.

If you ctrl+click the PDF or Word document you should be able to choose from the menu, show as icon.

If you want to permanently show the attachments as icons, close Apple Mail, open Terminal and issue the following command

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes

Thanks Alberto. That worked a treat. Attachment Tamer was my solution but with the latest version of Mail it was disabled due to incompatibility. Why Mail has not got this option in Preferences I have no idea.

Thanks for that!!  It has always been bugging me!!

This solved my problem, thanks very much. been bugging me for ages.

how do I open Terminal?  Sorry, my total ignorance...

Look for Terminal in Applications, or Applications>Utilities, double click on it.

thanx  a million

Glad I could help!

Hi

this bugs me too, so switched to outlook for mac but that doesnt sync with icloud contacts aaaggghhh!

Anyway, tried what you suggested and it worked, however, things like jpegs, pngs etc in email signatures now appear as attachments not pictures.

Is there any format that can be excluded?

Thanks

How do you reverse this command in Terminal?

I did it on my bosses computer and now she doesn't like it.

Thanks.

Close Apple Mail, open Terminal, copy and paste the following command

defaults delete com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing

Reopen Apple Mail and check.

Perfect.

Thank you.

Excellent solution.  If anybody else wants to solve the problem permenantly they need only copy Alberto's command above in full and paste it on terminal, hit enter and poof - it's gone.
Thanks very much. 

Alberto -- Do you know if the terminal command you suggested will work with Maverick? After I applied the command it seems the mailbox still has the attachments in preview.