how to stop online icloud mail from auto download all attachments

Damnably annoying this is. Is there a means to stop auto downloading attachments each time an email is selected?

I have exactly the same problem, I'm using Chrome (latest version)

Surely there's a fix for this?!

Me too - this is outrageous !!

Ditto - super annoying!

Just adding yet another me too - surely the few posters here can't be the only people that find this annoying. And dangerous if the attachment is harmful?

I suspect not too many are reporting the problem because not too many people use iCloud to check their emails.

I just checked again to confirm that the issue is still occurring. It is. but I noticed that whilst pdf files are auto-downloaded, jpegs are not. Anybody else able to confirm that?

Me too but it only seems to happen on pdfs for me. The only thing that I've been able to do is to always ask before opening attachments. But that is still frustrating as you still have to decline. But not as frustrating as the continual opening of attachments. It seems to be a mail problem, rather than a pdf reader problem as it happens on both acrobat and pdf creator.

Starting happening to me a few weeks ago... I've setup a help call from Apple for tomorrow (Dec. 15th @ 3:30pm CST). I'll put the solution in this thread once I discuss it with them :-)

I wish I had the answer. Unfortunately, I only have shared frustration. Exasperating! This is the sort of thing that will lead me to quit using iCloud if it continues.

I am using Chrome v40.0.2214.91 m - on a PC - and it’s not causing a problem – so this could be a workaround for now.

However, the latest Firefox v35.0 on a PC is causing the same problem. If you have to use Firefox then you can ask it to prompt you before downloading but this is still annoying so I would go for Chrome.

Haven’t tested this on a MAC yet..

Is there any progress on this issue? I'm getting the same behaviour using iCloud Mail, through a Firefox browser, on a Windows computer. As best I can tell the program tries to download any PDF file (I get the save dialogue, and then click cancel, again and again and again); this doesn't seem to happen with other file types.

I have the exact same problem, using iCloud Mail on Firefox.

It even autodownloads PDFs from my own SENT emails, when I have to click on them to be able to print them out ... which adds annoyment to the already existing annoyment about incoming PDFs.

As I am currently sending out (and having to print them out for my files) many job applications with several PDF attachments, all these are always downloaded as well, so my download folder is chock full with a number of copies of MY OWN SENT OUT PDFs over and over again, which is totally stupid and extremely annoying, because I have SENT THEM OUT, so why on earth would I need to automatically download a copy of what I sent out?

Still no answer Apple? Are you just trying to ride this one out?
Disappointing, to say the least.

Can someone tell me HOW can I tweak Firefox to at least PROMPT me before trying to automatically download anything instead of just doing it without asking?

I had this annoying problem as well. I use Firefox 35.01 browser and Yosemite OS. The problem is a setting in the browser that is telling an application to open all .pdfs (in my case with Adobe Acrobat Pro) with a particular application when .pdfs are encountered. In Firefox, go to Preferences/Applications and you will see the columns Content Type and Action. In the Content Type column, scroll down list to Portable Document Format/... and in the Action Column you will have a dropdown menu where you can choose the Action. Probably, your action is set to one of the many choices besides Always Ask. Set this to Always Ask and then when you are perusing your mail in iCloud, and touch down on an email with a .pdf attachment, it will ask if you want to open it instead of just doing it.

hi TRE101 - did you ever get a solution. I am faced with the same problem.

Thanks,

ezequiel

I had this annoying problem as well. I use Firefox 35.01 browser and Yosemite OS. The problem is a setting in the browser that is telling an application to open all .pdfs (in my case with Adobe Acrobat Pro) with a particular application when .pdfs are encountered. In Firefox, go to Preferences/Applications and you will see the columns Content Type and Action. In the Content Type column, scroll down list to Portable Document Format/... and in the Action Column you will have a dropdown menu where you can choose the Action. Probably, your action is set to one of the many choices besides Always Ask. Set this to Always Ask and then when you are perusing your mail in iCloud, and touch down on an email with a .pdf attachment, it will ask if you want to open it instead of just doing it.