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In Mail, how do you turn off displaying images in the message content.

I receive and send PDF that sometimes are large. When they are displayed in my message, it make it very hard to scroll, drag it to desk top, or view it. Is there a when to not have imagessuch as PDF display in the message content?

iMac (24-inch Early 2009), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Jun 18, 2013 1:38 PM

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Posted on Jun 18, 2013 7:10 PM

Triple-click this line and copy it.

Open Terminal and paste it in and hit return.

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool YES

This will set Mail to not display attachments inline.

To reverse it, change YES to NO

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool NO
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Jun 18, 2013 7:10 PM in response to Atscons

Triple-click this line and copy it.

Open Terminal and paste it in and hit return.

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool YES

This will set Mail to not display attachments inline.

To reverse it, change YES to NO

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool NO

In Mail, how do you turn off displaying images in the message content.

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