Mac mail inline attachments - Yosemite 10.10

Sassi Cat wrote:

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.

So it is just you that needs to see the file info? If so, and you can't keep track of what you've attached the normal way, just right-click and choose show as icon.

You can also select one and Quicklook it.

Not only should we whine about it, we should try and make this go viral. My guess is that less than 1% of mac users like how Apple Mail does attachments. Its a f*ning no brainer to attached the files separately to the email (like Outlook). Why can't Apple just fix this. At a minimum, there should be a preference setting where we can select this.

So let's figure out how to get tens of thousands of people to whine about it. Perhaps we set up a website called "ChangeAppleMail". We then create a website that will direct people to this forum. To post a complaint. All they would have to do is click on the link, type in their AppleID username and password and then post "Agreed" or something similar.

I agree with everything posted about Apple Mail. For all of the greatness that Apple touts about speed and features, it acts like a very basic email client. Just changing the way attachments work would be a BIG win. The ONLY time I would want to have items inline is with photos, and even then it should be a choice I make. In the body of email, or displayed as attachment files should be the option.

Probably he is not using Mail.

From my horizon it works for 10.10.1 and not 10.10.2. I have 10.10.2 and I can't get it to work.

Upgraded a couple of weeks ago to Yosemite - and this is once again drivng me crazy too. Lokiware's application tamer was great but no Yosemite compliant version as yet. I am as frustrated as the rest - looks very unprofessional sending the attachment as an image - particularly when the content is confidential. Anyone with a solution - please do post!

Thanks yes - the zipping works and is a workaround for now. Much appreciated. Hopefully Lokiware can resolve this for us - if Apple won't.

It's absolutely infuriating and I spent about an hour of my life that I'll never get back going round and round chatting with Apple support about this issue. They simply do not understand how this would be a problem for Mail users. I guess they just can't comprehend that there are actually people in the world who don't use Apple Mail. I'm a freelance graphic designer, so I need to send image attachments to clients frequently. And most of these clients use Outlook. I constantly get responses of "no attachment", then I have to explain to them to look at the end of the email, right click on the image and "save as". So lately I've been zipping the files, but that slows down productivity on both ends. But considering you can find gripes about this issue in the forums dating back to 2011, I don't think Apple has any intentions of fixing this. So please, Lokiware, update Attachment Tamer soon!

I think it is time for Apple Mail users to switch to a better email app. I like SeaMonkey for its integration of browser (Firefox) and email (Thunderbird). Or people could pick individual apps, like Thunderbird.

I switched from SeaMonkey to Safari/Mail when I got my last new computer 1 ½ years ago. I have regretted it ever since.

The problem I have in switching back is to understand whatever effect that may have on Contacts and Calendar, which, I believe are the only other Apple apps that share info with Mail. The other hassle is the email history now in Mail that is not in Thunerbird/SeaMonkey.

One I understand those issues, I am switching back.

A mass abandonment of Mail is the only way I see to send a message to Apple to fix their mess. There are half a dozen problems with Mail, not just the attachment issue. It replicates files in Drafts. It doesn’t empty drafts when the email is sent……… Sometimes I don’t know if a business email was sent or not. I won’t bore you with the rest.

I know Apple reads these email because they have contacted me before about problems I described with Pages. Since they know about these problems, and have made no effort to fix them, it is obvious they don’t consider this worth their while, or they think the rest of us are stupid.

I also think about changing mail program, but if I do that I also must change Calendar and Contacts in my two computers, my iPhone and two iPads. That is a lot of work and lots of confusion. On the other hand I am not satisfied with how Calendar and Contacs are working either. Why are they not connected? Why has there not been any development on these program for ages?

I have use Mac for 20 years and I am happy with that, but this questions makes me regretful. Before has Mac always felt like it made by and for professionals, but now it feels completely different. The most important for me now is that the machines are helping me to make money smoothfully. I don't want to change to a PC. I want the mac people to wake up.

I am not sure the problems with Mail require a change to a PC. I run the only two PC programs I need under Parallels/W7, and I certainly don’t want the hassles of a pure windows machine all the time.

I “think” that notifications of meetings, etc. that come in through another email program will go into Calendar. I “don’t think” the email addresses in Contacts will go into a different email program.

If any one has the details, please advise.

This has been an issue for a very long time, and attachment tamer was a great workaround. If you do the research though, it appears that this is just an email incompatibility, with mail and outlook (and only outlook, not all windows programs!) using different standards. Similarly Notes ⚠ uses different standards. It CANNOT be fixed on the host machine using existing software - it is an issue with how the recipient's software reads the data. Attachment tamer restructured every email to make it more friendly to Outlook (but issues could still exist. I too use this for work and it is incredibly annoying, but still, its a bit like using keynote and sending the file to a powerpoint user. Cant wait for a solution though!

I have the following problems with Mail:

1. The Drafts folder frequently contains a number of previously Sent files. I don’t know if they have been sent or not, so I have double check whether they are in the Sent folder.

2. When I delete files in any Mail folder (select all/delete), some will delete and some will not. I have to delete the folder several times to get all the files to leave.

3. Sometimes, a file in the Drafts folder will replicate itself up to 30 times. I look in the folder and there are 10-30 copies of the same file (unread/bold) in the folder. Repeat step 2. above.

4. I needed to send several attachments to a client for business reasons. He replied that he didn’t see any attachements. I said to look at the bottom of the email, which included several back-and-forths. Nothing. I sent the email with attachments again. Still nothing on the receiving end. I opened SeaMonkey and sent the same files in the attachment window. Bingo! No problem.

I don’t care what compatibility problems there are between email clients, Mail doesn’t work and SeaMonkey JUST WORKS.

I sent an email to tim.cook@apple.com with the above points in it. In preparing this discussion message, I went to look for the “tim” message to copy and paste here. It was nowhere. Not in the Sent folder, not in the Drafts folder. I did a search on tim - it immediately found tim.cook@apple.com. When I clicked on the the name in the search field, nothing. It maintained the name from the previous message, but lost the message. There was no indication the email didn’t go - no bounce….

One thing I asked Tim to do was at least make a statement to the public that Apple has no intention of fixing Mail. That will settle the question for many of us to go find a real mail client.

Hi ashanp - if only that were true. I don't use Outlook at all. I use native mail and I pull through some outitgoes.com mail addresses - all mail addresses I use through Apple's mail - native or otherwise - have this problem with attaching documents!

Always get people asking me to send attachments as a icon and not embedded. Have to then either send via a dropbox file or use someone else's

windows based computer. Complicated !!

Have Yosemite on my Mac

Its okay to have option to view on Mac as either embedded or as an icon ,

important part is to have the option available that the receiver can get it as an icon.

Sending attached photos is a everyday activity.

So in need of a solution, preferably from Apple