How can I prevent mail attachments embedding when sending mail

Better Answer!!!

http://micahgilman.com/play/disable-mac-mailapp-inline-image-attachments/comment -page-2/#comment-3029

Yes, this worked for me like a charm!

cspell wrote:

Yes, this worked for me like a charm!

Are you sure about that? That command just sets the "View as icon" flag. It has no effect on how the message will appear on the recipient's machine.

It definitely did but I actually did not test the effect on on my recipients in my haste. So I reverted it back and did a test. You are corrrect in that it did not change the display of the attachment for the recipient (at least not yahoo mail recipients). They still see the attachment the same way but it DID change how the attachment appears in MacMail when composing the message. Without this tweak, my PDF attachment is showing up full page as if I typed it in the message. With this tweak, it just shows up as an Icon. It's much more user friendly although it would be nice if it put the attachment in the header like Outlook but I can live with this...

If I send attached images out from iPhoto directly by mail, they go out as attachments, not embedded.

Apple keeps missing the simplest issues. We should also be able to size the images from mail and not have to go to iPhoto for that.

fredfromorange wrote:

If I send attached images out from iPhoto directly by mail, they go out as attachments, not embedded.

Can you prove that? That's a trick question because I know you can't.

Apple keeps missing the simplest issues. We should also be able to size the images from mail and not have to go to iPhoto for that.

Agreed. Apple should add a control to the bottom right corner of each message allowing you to change the size of the image or something.

See screen capture.

Not sure what you mean by 'prove' it since it works every time for me.

Go to iPhoto, select pics, Share..Email....etc....

OS10.7 - iPhoto 11 - Mail 5.1

Sorry. Forget what I wrote. Stupid mistake. Thought I had Attachement Tamer deleted weeks ago but AppDelete doesn't remove it completely; have to go to it's own remover.

Well, I have been searching this and other posting boards and I found this...

http://micahgilman.com/play/disable-mac-mailapp-inline-image-attachments/comment -page-4/#comment-8013

for Lion users, try (in Terminal):

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool true

It worked for me. Let me know if it works for anyone else. I just didn't like the idea of paying $15 to fix a bug (or add functionality, for those of you claiming that this inline thing is a "feature") that Apple should have taken care of.

For the umpteenth time - that does nothing. It will not change your outgoing message in any way.

For the umpteenth time, looks like Apple still has not fixed this blunder.

I'm not trying to get in one of your famous arguments. I'm just saying it worked for me. One caveat. I can't put any text into the message or the image goes back to being inline (that wonderful feature you've been raving about) but at least now I can send images that people on PCs can actually use.

How does it work? I have no idea. Maybe magic. Maybe Jesus. I really don't care.

There is no blunder. Apple Mail works as it has been designed over the past 12 years. If you don't like it, please suggest an alternative, preferably an alternative that works and hasn't been discussed in one of the previous eight pages. The only thing that is entirely useless and a waste of everyone's time is complaining about Apple.

Not the only thing. Posting dozens of responses that are the tech equivalent of plugging your ears and screaming "it's not a bug, it's a feature!" is also pretty useless.

It DID work. Now it does not.

Something changed, and you seem to be the only one here still defending the goof...