For work, I need to send photos to my editor via email. In Mail, the jpgs automatically become embedded in the body of the the email, but my editor would prefer to receive them as attachments. Is there any way to send photos as attachments in Mail, rather than embedded email itself?
MacBook (13-inch Late 2008), iOS 5.1.1
I've experimented with the all three options, sending emails to myself and reading the emails on a windoze machine with outlook 2010 on it. At first try, none of the three options seemed to do what people are asking for (and I wanted too). However, the reason number two didn't work, was because number one was still active (checked). So here's the solution that worked for me:
Hope this is helpful to someone else.
From another thread on this same subject in this forum:
Open: Applications>Utilities>Terminal and type (without the inverted commas):
"defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes"
That will make every attachment you send act like an attachment instead of a pretty unusable decoration.
If you decide this isn’t what you’re looking for, to restore inline attachment viewing type (again, without the inverted commas):
"defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool false"
Restart Mail and you’re back to normal.
Message was edited by: Dick Young
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Are you doing this in the mail program? Or from iPhoto?
I'm sending from Mail. But I'll try the Mail forum, as you say (this is my first time using Apple Support). The person receiving tells me they are not getting attachments, hence the problem.
Thanks all the same!
When your editor gets the email the photo is an attachment he can download.
If using Mail, just be sure to check [√] Send windows-friendly attachments.
The way you see it in Mail is an illusion -- nobody else gets in inline unless they are running Mail as well.
Please post a link to the Apple Mac Mail forum as I looked and as far as I can see there isn't one.
Thanks.
I edited my previous reply, so check it again.
sig wrote:
When your editor gets the email the photo is an attachment he can download.
Download from where?
Sorry to be such a dolt, Mr. Bennet-Alder: How do I "check [√] Send windows-friendly attachments"?
go to send an email with an attachment (using the paperclip Icon in Mail) and this window opens for you to specify the file_name. Once checked, it stays checked.
Or you could do what I have done. That is stop using the built in Mail program and get one that actually works and allows you to easily make those kinds of changes.
That box is already checked...
LaSylphide, the Mail forum shows up as one of the categories within the "Mac OS and System Software" forum. Click on whichever version of OSX you're using, and you'll see the list of categories.
There are several threads on this topic, and I've seen three solutions:
1. Check the "Send Windows-Friendly Attachments" box. Some people say it works, some say it doesn't.
2. Open Terminal and type:
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes
Some people say this works, some say it doesn't.
3. In Mail > Preferences > Composing, make sure "Message Format" is set to "Plain Text." Once again, some say this works, some say it doesn't.
Hopefully, one of those will solve your problem. There may also be a setting in your editor's email program that would solve it, but I'm assuming that's a Windows app and I haven't worked with Windows since 1993, so I'm no help there.
how can I sent photos as attachment rather than embedded in the email?
