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Q: Mac mail inline attachments - Yosemite 10.10

Has anyone found a Yosemite work-around yet to send image attachments as file icons that show as icons to Windows users and not images?

 

Right clicking and "show as icon" works on the Mac but Windows users still get full images in the email body.  I send lots of files for my work and this is really really annoying!! Many of my customers are not particularly PC literate and just cannot get the image out of the email.

 

Have always used Lokiware's Attachment Tamer, but in good old Mac "we don't care what our customers want to do, we will force them to do it our way" fashion, this has been disabled and Lokiware seem to be struggling to come up with an updated version.

 

Does this annoy anyone else, or is just me?

 

Nick Gates.

Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Nov 6, 2014 6:07 AM

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  • by ravi-gurgaon,

    ravi-gurgaon ravi-gurgaon Apr 18, 2015 9:43 AM in response to ash471
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    Apr 18, 2015 9:43 AM in response to ash471

    Always get people asking me to send attachments as a icon and not embedded. Have to then either send via a dropbox file or use someone else's

    windows based computer. Complicated !!

    Have Yosemite on my Mac

    Its okay to have option to view on Mac as either embedded or as an icon ,

    important part is to have the option available that the receiver can get it as an icon.

    Sending attached photos is a everyday activity.

    So in need of a solution, preferably from Apple

  • by adrade,

    adrade adrade Apr 24, 2015 2:30 PM in response to Eric Root
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    Apr 24, 2015 2:30 PM in response to Eric Root

    Holy crap - this is the answer!  Thank you so much for this!  You just saved my sanity.

  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Apr 24, 2015 5:29 PM in response to ravi-gurgaon
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    Apr 24, 2015 5:29 PM in response to ravi-gurgaon

    ravi-gurgaon wrote:

     

    important part is to have the option available that the receiver can get it as an icon.

    That is purely up to the receiver's email client. If their client supported the email specifications, they wouldn't have a problem at all and could set up their client to either see it inline or as an attachment. And, either way, they would be able to save the attachment.

  • by Cosman,

    Cosman Cosman Apr 24, 2015 8:18 PM in response to ravi-gurgaon
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    Apr 24, 2015 8:18 PM in response to ravi-gurgaon

    I Keep a copy of SeaMonkey handy to send attachments.   I include myself in the "to" column. Never had a problem with Sea Monkey (Thunderbird).

  • by Larry McJunkin,

    Larry McJunkin Larry McJunkin Apr 26, 2015 4:28 PM in response to ronin2010
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    Apr 26, 2015 4:28 PM in response to ronin2010

    Hmmm...someone who simply doesn't understand the problem and the impact it has on normal workflow.

  • by ashanp,

    ashanp ashanp Apr 27, 2015 5:00 AM in response to alexandrafromsouthampton
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    Apr 27, 2015 5:00 AM in response to alexandrafromsouthampton

    Hey thanks. Thats not the experience I have, so I guess different somehow. I use native mail also, and the problem is if the recipient is on Windows outlook. All other recipients are fine - thunderbird on both platforms, gmail, yahoo, etc. Hence my point that it is an OS X Mail / Windows Outlook incompatibility (have not tested Exchange vs Outlook Express though)

  • by nickcage49,

    nickcage49 nickcage49 Apr 28, 2015 11:49 PM in response to casey451
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    Apr 28, 2015 11:49 PM in response to casey451

    Awesome workaround, thanks!

     

    But now I have a new problem.

     

    I have my name in script that I use a shortcut to enter when I send an email.  Now it appears as an attachment.

     

    Any way to change that?

     

    And I'm sure the same will apply with other images.

     

    Bruce

  • by designdomino,

    designdomino designdomino Jun 17, 2015 7:27 PM in response to nickcage49
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    Jun 17, 2015 7:27 PM in response to nickcage49

    hi, I found two solutions. First, I found the instructions on Apple's support which said that you had to make sure "Edit -> Always send Windows friendly attachments" was checked. Which still didn't work for me. So I revisited that link and realized that it then it said you must click the paperclip (attach icon) to attach the image. That worked apparently. I was always dragging the image in.

     

    But before I knew that work, I installed this and then purposely dragged the image in and this worked too.

    http://clivegaleni.com/posts/os-x-yosemite-10.10.2-and-mail-8.2-anti-inline-plug in-update/

  • by dlt1th,

    dlt1th dlt1th Aug 12, 2015 6:05 AM in response to douglasfromboise
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    Aug 12, 2015 6:05 AM in response to douglasfromboise

    A year later, but I just upgraded to Yosemite (involuntarily, came installed on the new Mac) and I just submitted feedback, too.

  • by hugginst,

    hugginst hugginst Sep 11, 2015 5:17 PM in response to nickgates
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    Sep 11, 2015 5:17 PM in response to nickgates

    I just noticed this thread...regarding saving images. You want to attach the image into your email. Next "Control" click or right click on the image for a popup window with options. Choose "View as icon"  and it will look like this :  I hope you found this helpful!

     

    Screen Shot 2015-09-11 at 8.15.03 PM.png

     

     

    Screen Shot 2015-09-11 at 8.12.02 PM.png

  • by lazaroucy,

    lazaroucy lazaroucy Sep 15, 2015 11:11 AM in response to nickgates
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    Sep 15, 2015 11:11 AM in response to nickgates


    ANY ONE KNOWS HOW TO UNDO THIS COMMAND? MY MAIL SIGNATURE (PNG)  DOES NOT DISPLAY NOW


    defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool YES

  • by NoraW2,

    NoraW2 NoraW2 Sep 18, 2015 6:59 AM in response to nickgates
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    Sep 18, 2015 6:59 AM in response to nickgates

    I have been 'zipping' my files to prevent them being displayed as inline images. It takes a little extra time which is annoying but it preserves the document names and allows free manipulation on the Windows receiving end.

     

    I don't even want to put my clients through another series of tests for the new plug-in. As a freelancer it is my job to make my clients' life easy, not to have them jump through hoops to try to get proprietary Macintosh programs to play nice with the industry standard (Windows/Outlook).

  • by NoraW2,

    NoraW2 NoraW2 Sep 18, 2015 7:09 AM in response to designdomino
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    Sep 18, 2015 7:09 AM in response to designdomino

    Perhaps this works with some combinations of the various releases of MacMail and Outlook, but it did not work with me. I've researched this thoroughly:

     

    • I used Attachment Tamer by Lokiware for a while-- which was great until even the heroic developer of that app lost interest in keeping up with OS updates.
    • I used Outlook for Mac for a while (on the wink-is-as-good-as-a-nod suggestion from a Mac tech support guy: he kept stressing that if I wanted professional capabilities with my e-mail I should get a 'professional tool.') Outlook drove me crazy as I was not able to organize my saved emails in a way that I understood (my ignorance, no doubt, but totally frustrating.)

     

    Now I am 'zipping' all of the files that I send to my Outlook clients. This is a pain in the neck but it preserves my document names and allows them to save without having Masters degrees in computer science.

  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Sep 18, 2015 2:53 PM in response to NoraW2
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    Sep 18, 2015 2:53 PM in response to NoraW2

    proprietary Macintosh programs to play nice with the industry standard (Windows/Outlook).

    Mail is not proprietary at all. It is very much open email standards. It is Outlook that is proprietary. It was designed to only work on their proprietary Exchange server. They tried to make it handle "internet email," but failed miserably as you have discovered.

  • by thehappybroker,

    thehappybroker thehappybroker Sep 20, 2015 8:11 AM in response to lazaroucy
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    Sep 20, 2015 8:11 AM in response to lazaroucy

    Hi Lazroucy - did you get an answer on how to undo this - got the exact same issue with my signature now too :/

     

    Cheers Clint

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