Mac mail inline attachments - Yosemite 10.10

Holy crap - this is the answer! Thank you so much for this! You just saved my sanity.

ravi-gurgaon wrote:

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

That is purely up to the receiver's email client. If their client supported the email specifications, they wouldn't have a problem at all and could set up their client to either see it inline or as an attachment. And, either way, they would be able to save the attachment.

I Keep a copy of SeaMonkey handy to send attachments. I include myself in the "to" column. Never had a problem with Sea Monkey (Thunderbird).

Hmmm...someone who simply doesn't understand the problem and the impact it has on normal workflow.

Hey thanks. Thats not the experience I have, so I guess different somehow. I use native mail also, and the problem is if the recipient is on Windows outlook. All other recipients are fine - thunderbird on both platforms, gmail, yahoo, etc. Hence my point that it is an OS X Mail / Windows Outlook incompatibility (have not tested Exchange vs Outlook Express though)

Awesome workaround, thanks!

But now I have a new problem.

I have my name in script that I use a shortcut to enter when I send an email. Now it appears as an attachment.

Any way to change that?

And I'm sure the same will apply with other images.

Bruce

hi, I found two solutions. First, I found the instructions on Apple's support which said that you had to make sure "Edit -> Always send Windows friendly attachments" was checked. Which still didn't work for me. So I revisited that link and realized that it then it said you must click the paperclip (attach icon) to attach the image. That worked apparently. I was always dragging the image in.

But before I knew that work, I installed this and then purposely dragged the image in and this worked too.

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

A year later, but I just upgraded to Yosemite (involuntarily, came installed on the new Mac) and I just submitted feedback, too.

I just noticed this thread...regarding saving images. You want to attach the image into your email. Next "Control" click or right click on the image for a popup window with options. Choose "View as icon" and it will look like this : I hope you found this helpful!

ANY ONE KNOWS HOW TO UNDO THIS COMMAND? MY MAIL SIGNATURE (PNG) DOES NOT DISPLAY NOW

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool YES

I have been 'zipping' my files to prevent them being displayed as inline images. It takes a little extra time which is annoying but it preserves the document names and allows free manipulation on the Windows receiving end.

I don't even want to put my clients through another series of tests for the new plug-in. As a freelancer it is my job to make my clients' life easy, not to have them jump through hoops to try to get proprietary Macintosh programs to play nice with the industry standard (Windows/Outlook).

Perhaps this works with some combinations of the various releases of MacMail and Outlook, but it did not work with me. I've researched this thoroughly:

• I used Attachment Tamer by Lokiware for a while-- which was great until even the heroic developer of that app lost interest in keeping up with OS updates.
• I used Outlook for Mac for a while (on the wink-is-as-good-as-a-nod suggestion from a Mac tech support guy: he kept stressing that if I wanted professional capabilities with my e-mail I should get a 'professional tool.') Outlook drove me crazy as I was not able to organize my saved emails in a way that I understood (my ignorance, no doubt, but totally frustrating.)

Now I am 'zipping' all of the files that I send to my Outlook clients. This is a pain in the neck but it preserves my document names and allows them to save without having Masters degrees in computer science.

proprietary Macintosh programs to play nice with the industry standard (Windows/Outlook).

Mail is not proprietary at all. It is very much open email standards. It is Outlook that is proprietary. It was designed to only work on their proprietary Exchange server. They tried to make it handle "internet email," but failed miserably as you have discovered.

Hi Lazroucy - did you get an answer on how to undo this - got the exact same issue with my signature now too :/

Cheers Clint

Try using a browser email client.

I use a big beautiful Mac for my personal computer at home but have a Win/PC device for work. So sending images from home to work has always been a problem. I too have tried all these workarounds and have found that sending attachments through your web-based email client (Gmail, Outlook, Hotmail, etc.) is a decent workaround. I keep Gmail's email client up in a Chrome window all day long on the Mac. When I need to send mail to my work machine with an image attachment I just compose the message in the browser client instead. Attachments go through just as you'd expect - as attachments and not inline images. I'm not sure if this will work with an apple-based email address and their iCloud client.