Mail signatures change into attachments, why?

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Mail signatures change into attachments, why?

I recently switched my email accounts from POP to IMAP and all of a sudden, sometimes my signatures are getting converted into attachments after I send the message. The attachments get titles such as ATT00001.txt. I am using Mac Mail. It happens with my work account. I also have an iphone and use mobile me to synch it with three other intel macs. But this happens without any involvement of AT&T and my iPhone.

iMac intel, Mac OS X (10.5.6), iphone, macbook Pro

Posted on Jan 8, 2009 12:10 PM

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steam228

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Jan 14, 2009 10:02 AM in response to ProfofM

greetings!

I have the same problem,
do you allready have the answer?

regards

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Jan 19, 2009 4:56 AM in response to ProfofM

I also have the same problem,

IS there a solution for this problem?

Regards from Holland

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ProfofM Author

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Jan 19, 2009 2:56 PM in response to ProfofM

A little insight: I have found that since changing my Mail account to IMAP, I have to put all attachments at the end of the message or it converts any text located after the attachment into a second attachment containing that text. Why would it do that?

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LarryiMac

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Jan 19, 2009 6:14 PM in response to ProfofM

Signatures are created in Rich Text and your IMAP Server may be converting your message to plain text (for security or ???). There may be settings on your IMAP account to change this (Google has an Outgoing Message encoding option).

May not be the solution, but hopefully it points you in the right direction.

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Jan 19, 2009 11:55 PM in response to ProfofM

So if you put the attachments at the end of the message, the mail looks fine.
I mean then the email message is in the mail as an attachemnt?

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Jan 28, 2009 4:37 PM in response to ProfofM

I was having this same problem today, and I figured out what is happening.

When you send an attachment to Microsoft Outlook, the way that it handles rich text causes issues when you put the attachment icon in the body of the email.

I noticed that it only happens with non-image files. So .doc, .docx, etc. It doesn't cause problems when attaching .jpg or .pdf.

Any text that is located AFTER the icon you've attached is converted to ATT00001.txt when opened in Outlook. (and maybe other programs, I'm not sure)

The way to fix this is either:
1) drag or place the icon to the very end of the email, (including after the signature) OR
2) Go to the "Edit->Attachment" menu and check "Insert attachments at end of message."

Note, with option 2, you can set it as your default, thus not worrying about it.

The only issue is that when sending messages to other mac users, you can't have attachment icons show up in the middle of the email body.

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