Mail.app- 'Remove Attachments' corrupting mails

Thank you slackerbot. Your words are money to me.

BTW, I'm leaving a version of the script here as well (updated w some extra fail-safes):

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7Gv-iaTLONqLVVzaS1pTVIycm8&authuser=0

I filed a bug report on Apple's Bug Reporter. I don't know if someone already done that, but I hope someone give us some attention.

Your script works perfectly, great thanks to Rich In Space!

Thanks. This worked for me. Would be good to get a fix on the issue from Apple though.

Yesterday I filed a bug report too (20933434).

As others already mentioned, it has become worse since some time (since Yosemite probably). 1 or 2 out of 5 mails get corrupted.

Hmm, strange. Today I noticed that my Mail is less keen on corrupting messages than before. During the day's work, I've removed attachments from a number of messages, from people whose messages normally induce the corruption problem, without any problems at all. I checked if Mail had been updated in the background in some way, but it doesn't seem so. Could it be some kind of cosmic convergence?

Thank bro!!! That was epic! Just for the other people that have same problems with iCloud! I had the same situation in iCloud and I had to:

1) run your script (didn't see my email being fixed)

2) change to an other folder/inbox/wtvr and then return back the the problematic inbox (then I say my mail being fixed)

3) I had to move my mail to a local folder

4) move the mail back to iCloud

If I don't do steps 3 and 4, the mail returns to the corrupted form

The public beta still has this encoding issue unfortunately and your really helpful script may need tweaking (or it might just be beta software issues) but understand if you'd only want to look at this for final release. Just a heads up in case. Have been a daily user of the script since you made it available so am much in debt for your time to date. 😎

Hello, the Third OS X El Capitan Public Beta has been released today. Can someone verify that the bug still exists there?

Has anybody (as a beta tester) reported this bug?

This release does appear to have resolved this finally. I'm in good shape to date at least with no corruptions since

I will be happy to update the script if it turns out El Capitan doesn't fix the bug (and if the script needs updating of course) – just let me know. Will have to wait for the final release though since I'm not in the beta test program.

Removing an attachment from an email message in Mail under 10.10.5 just turned the body of the message into gibberish, again. Same behavior as in prior iterations of the OS.

The good news is that the fix still works (change the second occurrence of "base64" to "quoted-printable").

Hey, Apple, as of 8 days ago, this sore has festered for 3 years now. Happy birthday.

I tried the following, just out of curiosity, with an email where deleting the attachment changed text to chinese:

1. Searched for the email using Spotlight
2. Opened the email (.emlx) file using a text editor (TextWrangler)
3. Replaced "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64" with "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable"
4. Saved the file
5. Switched to Mail where the email was now readable but the preview was still garbled.
6. Rebuilt the mailbox
7. Voila, back in business!

My setup: Yosemite 10.10.5, Apple Mail 8.2

@zoranpop, this is what we've been doing all the time in this support thread. Please, read comments above.

Also, I left an AppleScript letting you perform these steps easier, with a single click in the AS menu from within Mail (see link at April 10 above). It also adds some other valuable sanity checks. Feel free to use it (source code is open).

Hi,

I have just downloaded the bar.scpt file in order to fix the problem of unreadable messages after deleting attachments earlier today ... but I do not know how to run a scpt file. Can anyone add a dummy description of what to do?? I have deleted several attachments and so I have the problem in several messages!!

Thanks!