Missing Attachments in Mac Mail

Hello, and welcome to the Discussions.

I don't currently have a test buddy with and Exchange account, but in the past I have never had a problem if I used Plain Text in the email, and never type or use the Return key between or after attachments. In other words have the attachment be the last thing in the email.

More info, please.

Ernie

Dan,

I was hasty, and misunderstood -- I thought it was attachments on email you sent. But you are talking about mail received from others? Not seen when accessing with Mail, but is with Entourage, from the Exchange server?

Take one such email in Mail, open it, click on View in the menubar, place the cursor on Message and choose Raw Source. See if you can find the header for the first or only attachment. What does that Header say?

Ernie

Hi,

I've been having the exact same issue with attachments not showing up when connecting to Exchange 2007, as has a friend of mine. In some messages the attachments don't appear at all, in others only one is missing but others are visible, and in others still all attachments show up fine. It's pretty random, as far as I can tell. The problem was not there when we were using Exchange 2003. As Dan posted, all attachments appear properly when the mailbox is viewed through OWA, on the iphone, or any other IMAP client I've tried, both desktop and mobile. So, it's definitely some weird bug with Apple Mail.

I have been having a similar problem:
I get an email every now and then where the little attachment icon in Mail shows up. When I click on a message, however, I see the text of the message but no attachment. If I use webmail to look at the same email, the attachment is there.

I've tried rebuilding my mailbox but that did not help.

This is kind of annoying since it seems to happen at random....

I am having a problem with Mail and I'm not sure if it is related to the above. Whenever I try to forward or redirect mail with an attachment, the new recipient receives the email minus the attachment?
I am using OX 10.5.4 and Mail 3.4 with .mac account.
I'm used to PC's and I've only had the Mac for a couple of months.

We're experiencing the exact same thing here, but on a different mail server (Zimbra), so the common factor here appears to be Mail.app, not Exchange. In the header list, the mails will even be listed as having 2 attachments, but in the viewing pane it reports 1 attachment and the second file is mysteriously missing. There has been no consistency as to size or type of attachment, seems like any random one will just fail to be displayed. Viewing the same mail with several other mail clients works fine (zimbra, tbird, etc.) and all attachments are visible.

-Mike

My issues is sending mail also. The attachments are not there? This has been occurring, off and on for weeks, no pattern. But! Around the time of mobile me? It is killing my business. Any options?
Does anyone use Thunderbird?

Thanks in advance
joe

Bumping this up. This issue, although it seems to affect random mails, consistently and repeatedly appears. Vanishing attachments is practically a show-stopping bug, is there any fix or workaround for this yet?

This is for emails that are sent and the receiver does not have the attachment.
After asking and bugging people I sent emails too. I have found they are present that can not see them. Based on the size of the email, it is there!

Some were savvy enough to determine they need to hit the "Detail" button on their mail program and there it is. (not sure which programs have this)

This is not the end all solution but it has solved some issues with my clients. All my emails with an attachment have this type of statement- "Note- The attachments are here. Some email programs you need to hit the Detail Button to see the attachment."

Hope this helps some.
joemed

Same problem here. Some attachment are missing. They would appear in Entourage, but not in Mail.

I looked at the raw source, and it says it's there (obviously). Here is the header for the first attachment of a recent email (the attachment is a pdf file):

------ =_NextPart_00201C8FC84.7DC160E1--

------ =_NextPart_00101C8FC84.7DC160E1
Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
name="179_Licence Application Procedure 2562008.pdf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Description: 179_Licence Application Procedure 2562008.pdf
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="179_Licence Application Procedure 2562008.pdf"

This is a very annoying problem. It has nothing to do with viewing details to see attachments. I think it might have something to do with the format of the message from the sender.

-- Here is something that worked for me. While the message with the hiding attachments is selected in the message viewer, go to the file menu and select "Save Attachments...". I saved them to a folder on my desktop and when I went to that folder, lo and behold there they were!

Not a solution but sure beats having to go to my webmail and downloading attachments from there.

The problem of "invisible" attachments sounds all too familiar. I am using Apple's "Mail" program ver. 3.4.

Recently, attachments have not always been showing up when the email's file size and the Paperclip icon indicates an attachment should be present. I have found that when this happens, very often I can view the hidden attachment by either going to the File Menu and choosing "Quick Look Attachments", or by pressing the Command and Y keys simultaneously. On occasion, I have had this abnormality occur from the same sender's email account who has also sent other emails with attachments that have shown up.

If this is a known Bug, hopefully the upcoming OS X 10.5.5 update will provide a fix.

Anyone at Apple got an answer for this?

I have the same exact problem with Mail 3.5 and Exchange 2007


/Ola