Help!! Whenever I send an attachment via Mail (Mac OS X Lion) it becomes part of the message and can not be opened or saved separately with a PC. How do I get the attachments to be "true attachments"?
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Whenever I send an attachment via Mail (Mac OS X Lion) it becomes part of the message and can not be opened or saved separately with a PC.
That's incorrrect. Anything you attach to a message is a "true attachment", but what your recipient's mail client does with it is not under your control. If they're using Outlook, it treats things as embedded in the message. So, if you're sending images, you need to put them all in a folder and create a .zip archive and attach that instead. You can also do the same if their email client is treating documents such as text files, .doc or even PDF files this same way.
As has already been stated, though no-one seems to have grasped it, that Terminal entry changes how you see attachments. If that's all you are concerned about, then fine - but it has no effect on what your receipients see. Some will see images displayed in the message, some will see them as attachments. It depends on how their email client is set up, and there is nothing you can do to influence it.
MeddyB wrote:
Thank you for this.
The problem is, it changes everything to attachments, including a logo in the signature for example, not only the attached file. Regards.
The best solution is to use http://lokiware.info/Attachment-Tamer. It solved my problem for good. I was stuck like you regarding the logo in the signature not showing up. With this small app, it will be just like before ;-)
hi this worked for me too thank you all very much
This helped, except that occasionally now, images become squished in transit, so I had to switch back. You can see my issue here: Mail is squishing / squashing / distorting certain jpg attachments
Mail Attachments - how do I get attachments to be "attachments" vs part of the message? Whenever I add attachments they become part of the message and can not be saved or opened separately on a pc.
