Q: Mac mail inline attachments - Yosemite 10.10

This was mentioned earlier in the thread...and it's the best we can hope for short of disabling inline images in Terminal, which won't work for folks with images in their signature or who want to occasionally add inline images. I simply right-click on the inline image or PDF and it's changed to an icon instantly.

No.  Just create an empty folder on the desktop, it does not really matter what you call it as long as there is nothing in it.

Create your email normally and drag and drop your images or attach them with the paperclip.

The last thing you do before sending the email is drag the Empty folder into your email.  I usually just put it right above my signature  For some reason this forces Apple Mail to zip the files and they will come out on the Windows end with the proper names.

Just tell your Windows users to trash the Empty.zip file after saving the images.

I found a solution.  A Mail addon, Cargo Lifter by ChungwaSoft, now Feingeist.  You create a new email, click on the Attach button, or drag and drop the attachments in to the body.  Cargo Lifter can be set to compress and Zip attachments over a minimum size, which you control in the Prefs.  If your attachments are under that size they go as normal.  The Zip file is uploaded to Box, or Dropbox, or whatever service you use.  The recipient receives the email with an URL to the box and clicks on that which downloads the attachments. Automated, fast and easy. And it avoids any issues with the recipient not having a lot of email storage space.  No more complaints from Windows / Outlook users like "I can't open the attachments".

This is ******* me off too! I want to send 15 photos that only can be recognized by the name of the file and to be organized They have to be as attachment. I could easily select all files and compress to zip, but that doean't allow me to reduce the size of the files. 30 MB at actual size is reduced to 1,3 at medium size. Please help. I will try the work aorund of the empty folder

I bought a Mail add-on called Cargo Lifter. You link it to your Cloud service such as DropBox or Box Sync. When you attach a number of files, (pdf, png, jpg, whatever) and hit "Send" a box opens asking if you want to upload the attachments to your Cloud service. You click "yes" (you have the option to let the email go the old way and hope the recipient's server or mail client can handle it) and the email goes with a URL link in the body for the recipient to click and "download" the attachments. This gives them the option to download or not and open or not. Good for people who are virus nervous.  It works well.

BTW - I tried PostBox and Airmail and came back to Apple Mail which is not so bad after all. -:)  The grass is not always greener.  With my Mail add-ons, Cargo Lifter, Mail Act-On, and SideKick, Mail is now doing everything I need and want it to do. Occasionally my IMAP folder syncing gets flaky but I'm not sure if it's mail or my ISP.

Hey,

I think you don't need an add-on to do that. It just take 1 or 2 steps more to upload files in dropbox and copy/paste the URL link in the e-mail. I think that all people want is the option to choose between inline attachments or regular attachments. It's very simple!

I like my macbook pro a lot, but sometimes apple does things in a very complicated way.Folders on top, Enter to open a file, cut and paste, easy changing icons, maximizing through the hole screen (not full screen) when double click, those are things that I really miss on the Mac. I have to use Xtra Finder and better touch tool for that.

Clive Galeni also provides a fix for El Capitan.

Changing the default behavior with the Terminal program doesn't affect what an Outlook 2007 recipient sees.

Clive's solution works to convert attached photos from inline to attachments. Although free to download, he does ask for you to buy a license.

Eric Root's Terminal fix( defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool YES ), combined with an HTML signature is the best solution available. Signature appears inline as it should, and image attachments are properly attached. Thanks Eric.

Using Apple Mail, with one or more items placed in a simple folder (not zipped) and sent as an attachment, can anyone confirm how this is received by a Windows Outlook user?

The widely quoted terminal command doesn't solve the issue I have of receiving emails containing several single page pdf attachments..all open, I hate that.

I'd like to see a refinement of the pop up menu that appears when you hover curser over the line separating Header from Body in received emails. Currently only offers Quick Look an option to Save attachments when it could allow you to select attachments individually.

I  have copied and pasted defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool YES into Terminal but am unable to save it.  When I come out and go in again it has disappeared.  Can you help?  Many thanks.

This is only a cosmetic fix on *your own* end.

It does nothing to how the images are actually sent out and received by the other party, which was OPs problem.

Hey Eric. I know this Discussion is from a while back, but I tried entering this command (defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool YES) into Terminal and it seems it went baddy on me. I'm not very familiar with Terminal, how would I reverse the command? Thanks.

manngroup wrote:

 

Hey Eric. I know this Discussion is from a while back, but I tried entering this command (defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool YES) into Terminal and it seems it went baddy on me. I'm not very familiar with Terminal, how would I reverse the command? Thanks.

i'm not sure how that could go bad. Perhaps you should explain what has gone "baddy."

As it shouldn't cause any adverse problem, I doubt the reverse will help, but just change the "YES" to "NO".

or use:

defaults delete com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing

I think this is the answer to a replacement for "Attachment Tamer"

http://clivegaleni.com/os-x-mail-anti-inline-plugin/

Seems to do the trick, at least in my initial test.

Prior to installing this plug-in, I composed a message to myself in Mail.app and attached a jpg image file. I then checked my mail with Outlook for Mac, and as expected, the attachment only showed up in-line. After installation, I repeated the test, and the attachment showed up in Outlook as a "normal" attachment. Haven't tested it yet, but I expect this will fix for other receiving mail clients as well.

Installed on Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.3 / Mail.app 9.2

After a couple of more tests, I will be paying the man his money ($14.90 for 3 machines.) He earned it.

Yes, I also found Clive Galeni's Anti-Inline and it seems to be working.  I have not had any complaints from Windows / Outlook users since I started using it.  I would love to see Apple update Mail to be more compatible with the 90% of the business world that is using Outlook on Windows machines.