How can you add an image in Mail without being an attachment?

I was going to say here drag the image into message but the receiver still gets attachment even though it's part of the message. There may not be a way around this with Mail.app.

You might be able to do what you want as a signature in Mail.app. Here's some examples:

Create a flashy HTML signature in Apple Mail

How To: Make an HTML Email Signature For Apple Mail

I found these and others by doing a google search on "signatures in apple mail".

At this point you know what I know about Mail attachments. You will just have to go through some of those google hits for ideas. Perhaps there's some easy examples you can extrapolate from for your own personal use.

PBN1 wrote:

How can you add an image in Mail without being an attachment?

You don't.

It's not possible. The e-mail protocol is designed for text; anything else has to go as an attachment.

Different mail clients (such as Mail.app, the mail client bundled with Mac OS X) may have different ways of handling such attachments, but they are still attachments. Each mail client has its own rules and methods, so one may display a picture as if it were in the body of the message, but another client may do something completely different.

A way of faking it is to format your message in HTML (which is a kind of text). The image is hosted on a remote server, not added to the message; instead, you include a link to it in the body of the message, as you would when building a web page. (This is also what the two tips helpfully provided by X423424X do, except that the link to the image is added in the signature, rather than the body of the message.) What exactly happens to it is, again, at the discretion of the mail client. In my case, for instance, displaying images in HTML messages is turned off, and will stay resolutely off.

PBN1 wrote:

Do you know an easy way te learn HTML?

I found W3Schools

<http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp>

useful. I don't really know if it's any better than the countless others you can find if you google "html tutorial" or "html primer", but at least it's concise and doesn't try to be cute.

Same problem: Both my MacBook Pro and iMac have a graphic as part of the signature in Mail (for several years). Following a Time Machine restore to the MBP after a hard drive failure, the graphic now appears as an attachment in both the Mail preferences signature block and the draft message. In fact, all graphics in the body of received messages as well as draft messages now appear as attachments. A VERY thorough review of my preferences as compared to my iMac show no differences in configuration. BTW - the images had an imbedded hypertext link.

My iMac mail application still operates nominally - displaying graphics and images as it should. I have even replaced the Library/Mail/Signatures in the MBP by copying the folder from my iMac - no joy. From this I can only deduce either a corrupted plist or a special setting unknown to me. The only thing I have not tried is deleting Mail prefs as I'm not certain how this will affect my numerous mail account settings.

Constructive criticism and advice welcome. Thanx!!!

My appreciation to the author of this thread:

Mail not displaying inline images correctly

Not only did it fix my signature problem, it now correctly displays my images within the body of my messages.