Did you mean to add an attachment? - Reads quoted text as well as my current email

Ventura Mail (v16.0) now includes a 'helpful' reminder in case you have not added an attachment to the email but have (presumably) mentioned something being attached.


A pop-up will come up 'Did you mean to add an attachment?'


Unfortunately, this comes up repeatedly for me on many emails, when replying to a longer thread. It must read the quoted text from the email as opposed to just the 'new' text I am adding with this reply.


Has anyone else had this issue?


I cannot find a way to turn the feature off. If it won't work properly I'd at least want to be able to disable these reminders.

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Posted on Oct 31, 2022 6:37 PM

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Posted on Dec 6, 2022 6:52 AM

YES this is driving me crazy and thank you for raising. I am sure this looked good on paper to the engineers, but it sees things that are not there, so to speak, and as a result I get this pop up because it misreads my email text or reacts to comments on an email thread that at one time contained an attachment. I called support and the advisor put me on hold ostensibly to connect me w a senior mail engineer. The same advisor came back on the line several minutes later to say the engineer just laughed and said basically yeah it's a feature that can't be disabled and that I had to live with it. Its disruptive and I do not want to live with it.


(I am also having pop up error message issues on my iPhone as a result of the 16.1 update--this ones a doozy--almost every email I try to send or respond to results in a 'could not send mail' alert....even though I am having no problems with sending or receiving and the messages that I get this alert on have sent just fine 100% of the time. I've worked w support on this too, and every 'solution' offered has failed to help. I'm in error message **** on both devices and it is really disruptive, as I said before...)

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Dec 6, 2022 6:52 AM in response to HectorByte

YES this is driving me crazy and thank you for raising. I am sure this looked good on paper to the engineers, but it sees things that are not there, so to speak, and as a result I get this pop up because it misreads my email text or reacts to comments on an email thread that at one time contained an attachment. I called support and the advisor put me on hold ostensibly to connect me w a senior mail engineer. The same advisor came back on the line several minutes later to say the engineer just laughed and said basically yeah it's a feature that can't be disabled and that I had to live with it. Its disruptive and I do not want to live with it.


(I am also having pop up error message issues on my iPhone as a result of the 16.1 update--this ones a doozy--almost every email I try to send or respond to results in a 'could not send mail' alert....even though I am having no problems with sending or receiving and the messages that I get this alert on have sent just fine 100% of the time. I've worked w support on this too, and every 'solution' offered has failed to help. I'm in error message **** on both devices and it is really disruptive, as I said before...)

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