Mac mail inline attachments - Yosemite 10.10

But if you move to El Capitan Outlook will no longer work. I paid $1,800 for a 27" iMac, which is a wonderful machine, and I would have gladly paid another $20 to $40 for a better Mail app to go with it, rather than a weak email app for free.

Sorry if you know this, but It seems that any pdf that is one page will show up inline and anything 2 pages or over will show up as an attachment.

When I want something to show up as an icon, I attach it normally, and if it's inline, I select it and then control click it, which gives me an additional/contextual menu and I can select "view as icon".

Yes. But as far as selecting and clicking for the contextual menu "View as Icon" that is for emails we have received. My issue is when I send emails to users of Windows and Outlook on Windows. (Of course, I cannot see what they are receiving) They complain that they "cannot open the attachment" (almost always a pdf I attached) or they say the pdf is inline in the body, or they say it's a "small icon in the body" and when they open it, "it is too small to read". I just acquired Clive Galeni's Anti InLine plugin so I'm waiting to see how much complaining I get from Windows / Outlook users.

I have spent quite a while testing various methods of attaching an image to Apple Mail.

The only one that I have found that works every time is the empty folder as the last item before your signature. This seems to work if you have one image or many in your email. I have not tested with PDF but suspect it will work too. It seems to force the Mac Mail to zip the attachments and they show up on Windows correctly.

Airmail 2.5 works the way Apple Mail should with attachments and PostBox seems to work as well if you drag the images into the attachment window. I have tested them with Windows Live Mail, and other clients on the Windows machine and they seem to work as expected.

The terminal command worked for me but it would not reverse if I wanted to turn it off. I had to manually edit the line to restore the inline function. Because of this strange fault in the terminal command I am sticking with PostBox for now. Airmail was nice but rules did not work properly.

This was mentioned earlier in the thread...and it's the best we can hope for short of disabling inline images in Terminal, which won't work for folks with images in their signature or who want to occasionally add inline images. I simply right-click on the inline image or PDF and it's changed to an icon instantly.

No. Just create an empty folder on the desktop, it does not really matter what you call it as long as there is nothing in it.

Create your email normally and drag and drop your images or attach them with the paperclip.

The last thing you do before sending the email is drag the Empty folder into your email. I usually just put it right above my signature For some reason this forces Apple Mail to zip the files and they will come out on the Windows end with the proper names.

Just tell your Windows users to trash the Empty.zip file after saving the images.

I found a solution. A Mail addon, Cargo Lifter by ChungwaSoft, now Feingeist. You create a new email, click on the Attach button, or drag and drop the attachments in to the body. Cargo Lifter can be set to compress and Zip attachments over a minimum size, which you control in the Prefs. If your attachments are under that size they go as normal. The Zip file is uploaded to Box, or Dropbox, or whatever service you use. The recipient receives the email with an URL to the box and clicks on that which downloads the attachments. Automated, fast and easy. And it avoids any issues with the recipient not having a lot of email storage space. No more complaints from Windows / Outlook users like "I can't open the attachments".

This is ******* me off too! I want to send 15 photos that only can be recognized by the name of the file and to be organized They have to be as attachment. I could easily select all files and compress to zip, but that doean't allow me to reduce the size of the files. 30 MB at actual size is reduced to 1,3 at medium size. Please help. I will try the work aorund of the empty folder

I bought a Mail add-on called Cargo Lifter. You link it to your Cloud service such as DropBox or Box Sync. When you attach a number of files, (pdf, png, jpg, whatever) and hit "Send" a box opens asking if you want to upload the attachments to your Cloud service. You click "yes" (you have the option to let the email go the old way and hope the recipient's server or mail client can handle it) and the email goes with a URL link in the body for the recipient to click and "download" the attachments. This gives them the option to download or not and open or not. Good for people who are virus nervous. It works well.

BTW - I tried PostBox and Airmail and came back to Apple Mail which is not so bad after all. -:) The grass is not always greener. With my Mail add-ons, Cargo Lifter, Mail Act-On, and SideKick, Mail is now doing everything I need and want it to do. Occasionally my IMAP folder syncing gets flaky but I'm not sure if it's mail or my ISP.

Hey,

I think you don't need an add-on to do that. It just take 1 or 2 steps more to upload files in dropbox and copy/paste the URL link in the e-mail. I think that all people want is the option to choose between inline attachments or regular attachments. It's very simple!

I like my macbook pro a lot, but sometimes apple does things in a very complicated way.Folders on top, Enter to open a file, cut and paste, easy changing icons, maximizing through the hole screen (not full screen) when double click, those are things that I really miss on the Mac. I have to use Xtra Finder and better touch tool for that.

Clive Galeni also provides a fix for El Capitan.

Changing the default behavior with the Terminal program doesn't affect what an Outlook 2007 recipient sees.

Clive's solution works to convert attached photos from inline to attachments. Although free to download, he does ask for you to buy a license.

Eric Root's Terminal fix( defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool YES ), combined with an HTML signature is the best solution available. Signature appears inline as it should, and image attachments are properly attached. Thanks Eric.

Using Apple Mail, with one or more items placed in a simple folder (not zipped) and sent as an attachment, can anyone confirm how this is received by a Windows Outlook user?

The widely quoted terminal command doesn't solve the issue I have of receiving emails containing several single page pdf attachments..all open, I hate that.

I'd like to see a refinement of the pop up menu that appears when you hover curser over the line separating Header from Body in received emails. Currently only offers Quick Look an option to Save attachments when it could allow you to select attachments individually.

I have copied and pasted defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool YES into Terminal but am unable to save it. When I come out and go in again it has disappeared. Can you help? Many thanks.

Hey Eric. I know this Discussion is from a while back, but I tried entering this command (defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool YES) into Terminal and it seems it went baddy on me. I'm not very familiar with Terminal, how would I reverse the command? Thanks.