sending (imap) email draft with attachment created on computer from iphone

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sending (imap) email draft with attachment created on computer from iphone

Here's one situation:

I type up an email and attach an excel file to it, then save it as a draft (in my @me.com drafts).

The draft email is now visible in the drafts folder on all of my devices: apple mail on my computer that I originally used, my iphone mail drafts, and also by signing on to www.me.com and opening my mail drafts.

one problem is when you open up an email draft on me.com that was created on a computer mail.app, only to see the message body text lose all of its formatting and appear to be jumbled html.

My main concern / question is:
The email draft with attachment appears to be in tact on me.com and on the original computer, but NOT on the iphone. On the iphone, the attachment seems to disappear. Well, not disappear, because it gets replaced by a small rectangle with a blue question mark in it. Basically you cannot view the attachment on the iphone. When you try to send this draft from the iphone, it works, but with jumbled text & no attachment.

Does anyone have similar problems???

3g, iPhone OS 3.0, mobileme subscription, also using mail.app, mac osx 10.5.7

Posted on Jun 20, 2009 1:12 PM

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shaloot Author

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Jul 7, 2009 9:05 PM in response to shaloot

ttt

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shaloot Author

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Jul 18, 2009 7:07 PM in response to shaloot

anybody???

nobody else has run into this issue??? this could be very very useful if it worked properly!

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shaloot Author

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Aug 22, 2009 11:52 PM in response to shaloot

hello???????

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Aug 30, 2009 12:21 AM in response to shaloot

Hi Just to reassure you, there is still life here on earth

I have related difficulty but simpler: How to get e mail
from draft on my mbp onto the iPhone without going through mobile me
I expected sync to do it but it didn't

With your problem your attachment seems to be of
the class you need flash drive for which iPhone safari can't download
best wishes
John Lawrence Tripleu Productions (not YouTube)

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Aug 30, 2009 9:16 AM in response to shaloot

hmmm well out of interest did you attach by clicking attach or dragging the file in or some other way?

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shaloot Author

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Aug 30, 2009 2:42 PM in response to Triple U Productions

Hey! Another human being!

Thanks for the reply.

In response to YOUR problem, AFAIK the only way to get email drafts onto your iPhone is by using an IMAP email account. Either that or your other option is to just email it to yourself.

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shaloot Author

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Aug 30, 2009 2:44 PM in response to iMad Richard

As for the dragging or attaching comment... Good idea. I believe I've tried both but will check on that.

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Aug 30, 2009 2:54 PM in response to shaloot

Yeah my guess is that there is a possibility that it will work using the attach button because dragging leaves a link and stuff on the message and attaches while the button just attaches; that left over stuff on the message would possibly be the 'link and stuff' lol.

🙂

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Aug 31, 2009 7:04 AM in response to shaloot

Wondering if there are other ways to get excel files onto iPhone though frankly must have limited value. Can't see my accountant wanting to peruse my annuals on his phone to be honest!
You could photo each sheet and send it as an iphoto attachment.
You can't put it in the body of the e can you.
John

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Aug 31, 2009 7:30 AM in response to Triple U Productions

iDisk app

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shaloot Author

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Aug 31, 2009 5:58 PM in response to iMad Richard

You are correct about the iDisk app as I have started to use that a little bit more for the sharing purposes.

However my concern wasn't over the simple task of getting excel files onto the iPhone. It's the fact that email attachments that are either in drafts, OR ALSO if you move a message (with an attachment) into an IMAP email folder, are completely lost when it comes to viewing or sending them from the iPhone. It's stupid - the attachments are still there on my computer (and I think they are still there on the me.com mail viewer as well).

Sometimes I move certain important work emails (that have attachments) into an IMAP email folder so they can be accessed from anywhere. The fact that the iPhone shows the paperclip and placeholder bit not the actual file is maddening. At least If the attachment was actually SENT from the iPhone, I wouldn't even care about not being able to view it (or even view the File name that is also lost).

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Sep 1, 2009 11:02 PM in response to shaloot

Hi you lost me!
How do you access iDisk from iPhone I haven't succeeded in this at all
John

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Sep 2, 2009 3:30 AM in response to shaloot

Did clicking attach make a difference?

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shaloot Author

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Sep 2, 2009 5:13 PM in response to Triple U Productions

Triple U Productions wrote:
Hi you lost me!
How do you access iDisk from iPhone I haven't succeeded in this at all
John

iDisk from iPhone? "There's an app for that!" Here is the iTunes link...

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=320654497&mt=8

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shaloot Author

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Sep 2, 2009 5:43 PM in response to iMad Richard

After messing around a little bit I'm still confused.

3 Tests...

1) From computer. Attached file to a new email using the paperclip button. Clicked the save draft button. Checked iPhone & the message shows up in my drafts with the paperclip icon. Open the draft on my iphone to see a box with a blue question mark inside. Now, I SEND the draft from my IPHONE (with the blue box in the message). I open the email on my computer and it appears that the .txt file that was attached was sent with no problems and appears as an attachment. Open up the sent emails folder on my iphone, and sure enough the sent email also has the attachment in it, and surprisingly I'm even able to open the attachment! So result number one means all that needs to be fixed is: THE ABILITY TO OPEN AN ATTACHMENT THAT IS IN AN EMAIL OR IMAP FOLDER DRAFT.

2) Same thing as 1 except I tried dragging the file into the email body on the computer to see if anything different happened.

3) From computer. Attached file to a new email using the paperclip button. Clicked the save draft button. Dragged the email into one of my IMAP folders. Open up this IMAP folder on the IPhone, and see the email, with a paperclip icon. Open up the email on IPhone and there is no attachment AND no blue box with question mark. However the body of the email is "scrollable" (if that makes sense to anyone else) meaning it looks like there is something there but all I typed in the body of the email was one line of text. Weird.

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