Q: Mac mail inline attachments - Yosemite 10.10

So, what do the email message look like on the Apple/Mac?  I get lots of attachments on emails coming my way and they all fall to the bottom of a long chain.  Sometimes I forget they are at the bottom and miss them.

They are an icon at the bottom of the body. After the text.  So if it's a pdf, doc, jpg, whatever, you will see an icon marked "(name you gave it).pdf"

In other words, no change from what Mail has always done. Yuck!

Gotta love Terminal. Thanks for posting that Eric !

If your a newb like me at using Terminal here is the code to turn this feature off (Change YES to NO):

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool NO

Hi all,

I've also the same problem and found some interesting things (some already mentioned):

1 - If you attach a pdf with only one page, it will appear in line (right click to show as icon). A pdf always shows correctly as an attachment in an Outlook PC.

2 - If you attach a pdf with more then one page, it will appear as icon. A pdf always shows correctly as an attachment in an Outlook PC.

3 - If you attach an image, it will appear in line (right click to show as icon). But the image is shown as a small thumbnail, impossible to open. This is the main problem.

4 - If you attach an image, and also a pdf, they will appear in line (right click to show as icon). Both shows correctly as an attachment in an Outlook PC!

5 - If you zip the image before you attach it (right click on it and compress) it will become a name.jpg.zip, and it will be an icon and shows correctly as an attachment in a Outlook PC (just uncompress it to some place in the PC).

6 - As in 5, you can first put the image/s inside a folder and then compress it. Works fine as in 5.

All these to avoid the the images in signature also get transformed in icons, as it happens if you use the above mentioned terminal command.

Not the ideal solution, thought.

Regards,

Rui Guerra

Forgot to mention another option:

7- Always have an empty folder created in your desktop. Just like in the solution 4, just also attach it with the image, and both will shows correctly as an attachment in an Outlook PC!

I have found Clive Galeni's Anti-Inline add-on for Mail.  That solves the issues of sending attachments to Windows users.  And for large files I just create a new folder, place the files in that, and upload it to my Drop Box account and place the Drop Box link in the body of the email.

But with Clive's add on, if you have images in your signature, they will also turn attachments, right?

I do not know. I do not use photos in my email signature.  Maybe contact Clive. Photos just make the signature / email file larger and my goal is to keep emails smaller in size.  I'm using iMac and Mail for business and my clients already know what I look like.  And photos in signatures are often just considered "ads" for your company or product. Not necessary.

Yes I agree, although sometimes we need to use our logo in the mail signature (not a picture of myself, of course) :-)

I've done some more experiments and if one puts the photos/folder at the beginning of the e-mail the PC/Outlook recipient will no see the body text of the image (so, always put the attachments at the end).

Note - Even with the Edit>Attachments>Insert attachments at the end of the message, it will not work if you have the cursor at the beginning or at the middle of the message. So first put the mouse at the end of the message and then:

1 - Add the photo (doesn't matter if you see it as an icon or not).

2 - Add an empty folder, named "empty" (to warn the recipient that it doesn't contain any information)

This is the best solution I've come so far.

Cheers,

I've resigned myself to living with it.  Apple is NEVER going to make Mail compatible with MS Outlook which 90% of the business world uses. It's dumb because they could sell more machines but they just will not do it. Yes, there are some other 3rd party email clients that run on Mac but none of them stand out to me.

And then there is this plugin that does it all: http://clivegaleni.com/os-x-mail-anti-inline-plugin/

I'm using the plugin with signatures without any problems. There is an option for that.

That's great news, Scottjacob. I'll give it a try!