How to disable inline attachment viewing in Apple Mail. Known solutions are not working!

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How to disable inline attachment viewing in Apple Mail. Known solutions are not working!

Have to go back to Apple Mail, or at least I am trying to do that. And Im back at the same problem, why i last time went away from Apple Mail - the infamous inline attachment problem. Cannot add some files as attachement and viewd as icons.

Have lost again many hours and searched for solutions.

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes, is not working in my case. Also tried instead of "Yes" "True".
Also tried to disable system Integrity Protection and run again nr 1 command. Also, no help.
Installed MacOS Mail Anti Inline Plugin - also, no use. PS!
Terminal has access for full disk access.

MacBook Pro 16, MacOS BigSur 11.2.3 (20D91), Apple Mail Version 14.0 (3654.60.0.2.21)

MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

Posted on May 15, 2021 1:50 PM

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etresoft

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May 15, 2021 1:54 PM in response to Arombard

Arombard wrote:

Known solutions are not working!

There never were any such solutions.

That "default" command only changes how the message appears when you view it. It doesn't change the message itself or how it will appear to the recipient. It never did.

In theory, an "anti-inline" Mail plugin could work. However, Apple Mail does not support plug-ins. Those few that people try to distribute are always flaky.

In short, this is not something to worry about. This was never anything to worry about. Just send e-mail and move on with life.

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May 15, 2021 1:56 PM in response to Arombard

Log your feedback with Apple: Product Feedback - Apple

As for the remote client, as correctly stated above, that’s up to the remote client. Entirely. Nothing the sender can do can control how the remote client renders (or does not render) MIME-encoded mail messages. This includes HTML and fonts and font rendering, too.

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Arombard Author

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May 15, 2021 2:16 PM in response to etresoft

I hate then I receive emails, and all I can see is huge photo, pdf or some other file. My boss uses Apple Mail and I have many times told him to use normal email client, because it's pain to read such emails. So I worry a lot because of it :)

But anyway, if Apple Mail team has fetich for this "feature", who am I criticise it. Have to move back to Outlook or Thunderbird. And be patient then I receive another email from Apple Mail app.

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Old Toad

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May 15, 2021 4:20 PM in response to Arombard

Here are two workarounds that I use:

1 - compress the image so you are sending a zip file.

2 - put the image file in a folder and add the folder to the email body.

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