Mac mail inline attachments - Yosemite 10.10

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. Maybe that will wake him up.

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.

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

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.

Hi Eric,

Can you help? I tried Disable Inline command that you posted but it didn't work. I'm trying to force mail to display attachments as icons instead of images.

Thanks,

Marcus

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.

PetteriKivimäki wrote:

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.

Why would you expect to see a name if you can see the image. The file is irrelevant to the content of the file.

In OS X, you can select the file size of the image, but again, it is up to the receiving email client to display it at whatever size is appropriate.

I just sent a Medium sized picture to my gmail account and it looks fine, nicely centered in the message.
Here is an example of a low-res image sent at actual size, as displayed in Gmail. What is wrong with it?

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

I found a solution that works! And it has been updated for the most recent OS X 10.10.2 update!

http://clivegaleni.com/posts/os-x-yosemite-10.10.2-and-mail-8.2-anti-inline-plug in-update/

Seems simple and not sure how the mail recipient sees it on their side but if you control, right-click there is an option to 'View as Icon'.

NEVERMIND. Still sends as an inline message. Why can't there just be an option to 'Send as Icon'? Ugh!

It is my understanding that the individual doing Attachment Tamer has given up developing it himself under Yosemite and is working with a larger organization to try to solve the issue. Check his explanation on the lokiware website.

They are missing Steve Jobs famous temper and ruthless editing to cut through the BS!

The reason you need to see the name - I am trying to send a technical email, with 5 different attachments, all slightly different version of the same thing, marked A, B, C, D and E. The differences are subtle, so they all look the same when reduced, so I can't tell which ones Ive attached without checking the name of each file.

Some us use Macs for work, not sending pretty pictures of dogs!!!!!

😁 (although I do like a nice picture a cute cat!)

As a workaround, you can zip the file before attaching it. That will prevent it from displaying inline. You can also upload it to a service like Dropbox and provide a link.