Suddenly the best email application ever (Eudora) stopped being supported by Comcast. So I've been forced to wrestle and grumble with Mac Mail.
Why are attachments automatically unfurled in the text? Why not allow them to be attached as a list that can be accessed by the recipient as a list? How do Mac users (Ive been one for 30 years) put up with such ugliness? Such clunkiness?
Grumble grumble.
Mac Mail because of its lame implementation of attachments.
It's that Apple stopped caring about elegance and efficiency, in at least this particular case.
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Hi RJ
This isn't going to help – because there's no solution. I have spent some time talking to a senior apple tech about this issue and in the end the guy said 'Frankly macmail is a toy not a tool'. GREAT! Anyhow – I feel your pain. How fondly I remember Eudora. Eventually I had to turn to Outlook for Mac for business reasons but gradually it's become just too clunky on my mac so I just switched to macmail. It's come on light years since they introduced it but man alive does the attachment thing stink. Ugly's just the start of it – it's clumsy, makes emails hard to read (esp. when you have multiple attachments – I frequently have 10 or more to send) AND it's a major security headache. You can r-click and view as icon – great. But thast's NOT how it appears to the recipient is it. As it's embedded it just auto-unpacks in the recipient's client. If your sending sensitive information, there it is, right in the view pane for any wandering eye that comes by.
Come on Apple – your in the B team with this one and it just can't be difficult to solve surely?
Both martinroberts and I remain dissatisfied with Mac Mail because of its lame implementation of attachments.
If you are not disappointed, well evidently you don't do much attaching or don't care that attachments unfurl to mess up otherwise compact text messages.
Aren't you lucky. The problem is not that I've gotten "behind on the hardware or software." It's that Apple stopped caring about elegance and efficiency, in at least this particular case.
Actually I tried this today - I uninstalled it after an hour! I couldn't even get it to connect to one of my email accounts! But don't be disheartened – I'm sure I was doing something basically foolish :)
Suddenly the best email application ever (Eudora) stopped being supported by Comcast. So I've been forced to wrestle and grumble with Mac Mail.
I feel your pain—If I had one salient point to make, it would be—it never pays to get too far behind in the hardware or software.
I transitioned from Eudora on 9/19/2012. I tried every email client alternative out there over the course of 6 months, including the open source Penelope.
I came to realize Mac's Mail.app does everything I need to run smoothly my 4 separate businesses and 12 email addresses. I did many test runs before I fully transitioned myself to the Mail.app It was important to retain all email historic records going back to 1998 with as little loss as possible.
I have not been disappointed once in 8 years using the Mail.app without fail.
In 2006 Qualcomm stopped development of the commercial version, and sponsored the creation of a new open-source version based on Mozilla Thunderbird, code-named "Penelope," later renamed to Eudora OSE. Development of the open-source version stopped in 2010 and was officially deprecated in 2013, with users advised to switch to an alternative mail client..
Hmmm, OK, sorry to hear that didn't work for you either.
Not all email providers are going to display attachments inline like you are seeing in your Mail client.
If you wan to ensure the do not show inline on the recipients client—control click>compress files/ or folders to .zip
Email Attachments in Mail
