OK, Apple Mail still has the Remove Attachments selection on the inbox Message menu. Strangely, after upgrading to High Sierra that function has always been grayed out , never available, even for those messages with loads of images, etc. I’d like to be able to get rid of the attachments and just save the text. Is this a bug? Has anyone figured out how to do this? Is it because I’m a POP mail person? Very annoying!
MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.13
Not sure on POP as I haven't used POP in a decade, but in 10.13.6 IMAP, that option will be grayed out until an eMail with attachment(s) is highlighted.
Is there a distinction between inline images versus actual attachments? If so, would it be possible to look at the raw header to see what's going on with that?
Oh, it just struck me... are you removing the eMails from the Server when downloading?
That might explain it if it is in fact trying to talk to the Sever to trash the attachment there 1st.
Interesting. Is it possible that Mail Reader in High Sierra is converting all images, pdfs, etc to inline?
I ask this because I see in the raw header the following example
--Apple-Mail=_FC2044BF-0B0B-4A60-9727-91F574C5B0D4
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename="Wells Fargo.pdf"
Content-Type: application/pdf;
x-mac-hide-extension=yes;
x-unix-mode=0600;
name="Wells Fargo.pdf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Thanks for the response. Option is always grayed out even when email is selected. Opening mail in separate window - still disabled. I thought it may be an overlooked bug since most people don't seem to use POP nowadays
Possibly, by definition they are the same, but Mail does treat them differently.
When I right click on an Image I get a choice to save it to Downloads, so, thinking inline attachments aren't saved separately.
Yeah, can't tell here, perhaps we'll get someone with a POP account to chime in... but I'm guessing it should work with POP, since I don't think it's talking to the server on that function.
If I set Mail preference to NEVER delete messages, Remove Attachments is still disabled after getting new mail with attachments.
BDAqua wrote:
Good test, last idea in my head for now...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode?
Yes, the problem is still there in Safe Boot
Yes.
Maybe use this to Find All for Wells Fargo.pdf try trashing it/them???
Find Any File...
http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/index.php
Hold Option or alt key when selecting Find to Find All.
Been decades since I had Earthlink as an ISP!
Good test, last idea in my head for now...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode?
How to rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac
If searching your Mac doesn’t return expected results, rebuilding the Spotlight index might help.
1. Choose Apple menu () > System Preferences, then click Spotlight.
2. Click the Privacy tab.
3. Drag the folder or disk that you want to index again to the list of locations that Spotlight is prevented from searching. Or click the Add (+) button and select the folder or disk to add. To add an item to the Privacy tab, you must have ownership permissions for that item. To learn about permissions, choose Help from the Finder menu bar, then search for “permissions.”
4. From the same list of locations, select the folder or disk that you just added. Then click the Remove (–) button to remove it from the list.
5. Quit System Preferences. Spotlight will reindex the contents of the folder or disk.
Manually Rebuilding Spotlight via Terminal
If the aforementioned Spotlight control panel approach doesn’t spur a reindexation of the drive, you may need to initiate it manually through the command line. Open Terminal and use the following command string to do so:
sudo mdutil -E /
This basically asks for temporary super user status, which is why Terminal may ask you for your password (it may not if you’ve used a sudo command recently or are already logged in as a super user or root. The command asks the unix tool mdutil to reindex the spotlight database for everything on the computer, including external drives, mounted disk images, etc. To re-index only for a specific drive, use the /Volumes path. For example, for an external drive named “MiniMe,” the command would look like this:
sudo mdutil -i on /
Rebuilding a drive index can take a long time, so be prepared to wait whether you do it through the System Preference panel or the command line.
If still need be…
Open Terminal and run each of these one at a time
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
sudo /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -seed -lint -r -f -v -dump -domain local -domain system -domain user -domain network
killall Dock
sudo mdutil -E /
Find Any File doesn't want to download for me but I'll try again later.
As a parting bit of info - If I use the webmail client for Earthlink to preview messages with attachments it definitely shows that there are attachments even for the "inline" types. Ironically there doesn't seem to be a way to delete or remove attachments there either. :-(
Thanks for all the help/suggestions
Yes I delete from server when downloading email. I'll try to test your idea by changing settings in POP
Remove Attachments in Mail never available
