Mac mail inline attachments - Yosemite 10.10

I have this same problem, and I don't get why Apple doesn't fix it. It cripples our ability to do "work" on OS X. Outlook for Mac is horrible too - so many shortcomings of its own. Another example of Microsoft "dumbing down" products for OS X. Grrrrr. I have been using Attachment Tamer too, though on Mavericks, it doesn't even work to VIEW as attachments in Mail, so on my screen, they still show up inline. But at least the recipient gets them as attachments. The AT web page acknowledged that feature wasn't available for Mavericks as recently as a couple months ago, and said they were working on that functionality, but now with Yosemite they have probably shifted focus to that release. Anyway, I will follow this thread and hope that if a fix is created/discovered someone will post here. In the meantime I am holding off buying a new iMac (which I actually need) because of this issue with Yosemite. Shame on you Apple!

Every email I send to a PC client who writes me back with "there was no file attached".... (and I SEE the file in their reply!!) Every one of those PC people is now even more fully convinced that Mac is a toy, not a business tool.

It's not just a ridiculous oversight by the Apple team, but it is extremely efficient broadcasting of Apple's perceived ineptness.

And as a business person, it is a HUGE EMBARRASSMENT.

Attachment Tamer was moderately useful... (I was in Snow Leopard before this new iMac and Yosemite), and I am SHOCKED that this issue has not been fixed in all this time.

douglasfromboise wrote:

I should add to my original posting. The only bit of advice that I the Sr. Apple Mail Support Specialist gave me was to use Outlook.

Hardly useful advice as Outlook Mac is known to have difficulties sending to Outlook Win, too. It is Outlook, not Mail that causes the problem.

nickgates wrote:

Hardly useful advice as Outlook Mac is known to have difficulties sending to Outlook Win, too. It is Outlook, not Mail that causes the problem.

That is totally not the case, I am now using Outlook for Mac and attachments are now turning up as they should - not inline, not embedded. Outlook is not perfect, but not the issue - it's Mail. Plus, when we could use Attachment Tamer (before the update of OS X) all was fine. That proves it is the coding within Mail.

It is, like totally, the case. You are just not sending to anybody whose version of outlook has the bugs that are affected by it.

Mail sends email standard messages. Microsoft is incapable of writing software that can handle them. Disposition inline is a standard email construct which should be handled easily.

to all those complaining... (i.e. not Nick)...

the mac is one of the most productive personal computer systems on the planet... with all the features and functionality that enables me to be productive far beyond ever using "other systems"...

you would think that you guys would quit whining... the inline viewing feature, although quirky, is still a great feature.

just rightclick, and choose "show as icon" or whatever.

quit whining.

I have a same problem here. I'm using a workaround by attaching empty zip file to every outgoing message. It somehow converts all attachments to icons at the Windows-end and clients can normally see attachments. I even created a default e-mail signature, which includes this "empty.zip" file, so i don't have to remember to attach it manually every time. Of course, sometimes it is confusing to receive attachment "empty.zip", bet it is the only solution that works for me. Tried Universal Mailer, not working. As i understand, Lokiware won't be supporting Attachment Tamer for Yosemite..

Thanks for sharing this, I wasn't aware there was another potential solution out there aside from Attachment Tamer. It seems odd to me that freelance developers can recognize the deficiency in Apple Mail and solve that problem while Apple chooses to not even acknowledge there is an issue. As for me I've said my piece with Apple and have migrated all my email, contacts and calendar to Outlook 2011 (as the aloof Apple "Sr Mail Support" person suggested). I've not been a big fan of Microsoft in the past which is why my house and business are all Mac but I have to admit they definitely have a much better mail application that allows me to now communicate with my clients more efficiently . . . this even with their Mail application being four years old.

Cosman wrote:

I have an idea. Someone post Tim Cook’s email address here and let’s flood his personal email with complaints and lots of attachments.

Why? The attachments will show up fine in Mail which he is using. It's not like he's using Outlook for Windows where the half-arsed coding causes problems for everyone.

Cosman wrote:

The point was to flood him with compliants. Attachments are secondary.

You should flood Steve Balmer with attachments. Maybe he'll notice his email client can't handle internet standard emails.

Hello all,

As a lone Mac in a Windows business environment, I've depended greatly upon Attachment Tamer to avoid these issues. However, with the discontinuation of that product, I've been fighting with Mac Mail since October. After researching a bit I have found a workaround that seems to be working for Yosemite 10.10 and Mac Mail 8.1. To fix things on my end I used the Terminal Command:

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool YES

This now allows me to drag and drop files without seeing them inline. To fix things on the Outlook end, I found a small plugin, offered for free by Clive Galeni here:

http://clivegaleni.com/posts/os-x-yosemite-10.10.1-and-mail-8.1-anti-inline-plug in-update/

This seems to keep the files as attachments when opened by the Windows users I correspond with. I've tested it with a few folks in the office and it seems to be holding up. We'll see how long it lasts as programs get updated. I hope this helps.

Well the attachments do not show properly even in my Gmail - the images I send from Yosemite Mail appear small and without a name - so its not only the Outlook to blame.

Ridiculously; the image sent from iPhone Mail are O.K. and the SAME images from Yosemite is small and without a name!

Please Apple, buy Lokiware or something.

Thank you for this! There is an update for Yosemite 10.10.2. This solves the problem of the inline attachments on the Windows end. Used the Terminal command to set the default Mail.app preference to show attachments as icons when dragged & dropped into a new email on the Mac. I just hope this plugin doesn't need an update with every OS X update.

And everyone is right...shame on Apple for letting this problem continue for all these years. Thanks to Clive Galeni for doing what Apple should be doing on its own!

Anti Inline Plugin - updated for OS X Yosemite 10.10.2