How can I prevent mail attachments embedding when sending mail

You keep saying that, but it doesn't change the fact that it's a bug. Every other mail program on the planet allows users to choose if their images are displayed inline or as attachments. Mail.app is deficient in this regard and should be fixed.

You should send feedback to Apple:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

C.

Thanks Ernie.

C.

I already sent feedback.

It is not a bug. It is as designed. I cannot save a CMYK image in Photoshop Elements. Only the full version of Photoshop can do that. That is not a bug in Photoshop Elements. That is a design decision to make a consumer application easier to use and support. If you want that feature. You have to pay extra. How come there are two sets of rules - one for Apple and one for everyone else?

I respectfully disagree, however intentional, its a bug.

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A software bug is the common term used to describe an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program or system that produces an incorrect or unexpected result, or causes it to behave in unintended ways."

Source Wiki Pedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug

In this case the defintion fits the program flaw, error, mistake, failure and fault of the programers.

Even well intentioned software by design can contain a flaw, error, mistake, failure or fault. Currently it would appear that all of these items are in fact present in the program, BY DESIGN.

It's a bug. It needs to be fixed. Plain and simple.

And please do not direct me to send feedback to apple again. That is what I am doing by posting this here, on an apple discussion list that the apple engineers that work on mail.app are fully aware of.

Let's get a fix.

Jeremy Kinsey wrote:

I respectfully disagree, however intentional, its a bug.

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A software bug is the common term used to describe an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program or system that produces an incorrect or unexpected result, or causes it to behave in unintended ways."

It is a bug if it does not work as designed.

It is not a bug if it works as designed but the user does not like it that way.

It's a bug. It needs to be fixed. Plain and simple.

Since it works as designed (it's not broken), there's nothing to fix.

You mean you would like them to change (not fix) the program to work as you think it should.

And please do not direct me to send feedback to apple again

So you don't want to let Apple know of your requests?

That is what I am doing by posting this here, on an apple discussion list that the apple engineers that work on mail.app are fully aware of.

They may be aware of it but they don't monitor these user-to-user forums.

You suggestions are far, far, far more likley to get read (and implemented) if you submit feedback.

Bug, flaw, whatever you want to call it, it ***** rocks and it should be fixed.

I'm also curious to know how you are so sure it works "as it was designed." Since the Apple developers have not seen fit to participate in this discussion, how do you know what their intent is?

Many of us have submitted bug reports on actual bugs in Apple Mail. Apple responds to those and, according to my own experiences and reports of others, their responses have always been that they have constructed Mail so that it is as easy easy as possible to use and that messages will appear on the recipients' machines as closely as possible as they appear on the sender's machine.

I doubt very much they even know what their intent is half the time.

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messages will appear on the recipients' machines as closely as possible as they appear on the sender's machine.

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They certainly USED to... Not anymore.

Now you are just mindlessly trolling. There has been no dispute about inline images appearing differently on recipients' machines. The issue is that you cannot change this inline setting.

And that my friend IS the bug.

Is not!

I can go on all day if I need to. Who does that help except the moderators who might get a chance to use their "thread lock" button?

In the most simplist of terms.

Program worked fine.

Now it does not.

Nothing changed in any other mailer.

Deductive reasoning 😉

Bug.