Mac mail inline attachments - Yosemite 10.10

manngroup wrote:

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.

i'm not sure how that could go bad. Perhaps you should explain what has gone "baddy."

As it shouldn't cause any adverse problem, I doubt the reverse will help, but just change the "YES" to "NO".

or use:

defaults delete com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing

I think this is the answer to a replacement for "Attachment Tamer"

http://clivegaleni.com/os-x-mail-anti-inline-plugin/

Seems to do the trick, at least in my initial test.

Prior to installing this plug-in, I composed a message to myself in Mail.app and attached a jpg image file. I then checked my mail with Outlook for Mac, and as expected, the attachment only showed up in-line. After installation, I repeated the test, and the attachment showed up in Outlook as a "normal" attachment. Haven't tested it yet, but I expect this will fix for other receiving mail clients as well.

Installed on Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.3 / Mail.app 9.2

After a couple of more tests, I will be paying the man his money ($14.90 for 3 machines.) He earned it.

Yes, I also found Clive Galeni's Anti-Inline and it seems to be working. I have not had any complaints from Windows / Outlook users since I started using it. I would love to see Apple update Mail to be more compatible with the 90% of the business world that is using Outlook on Windows machines.

So, what do the email message look like on the Apple/Mac? I get lots of attachments on emails coming my way and they all fall to the bottom of a long chain. Sometimes I forget they are at the bottom and miss them.

Gotta love Terminal. Thanks for posting that Eric 🙂!

If your a newb like me at using Terminal here is the code to turn this feature off (Change YES to NO):

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool NO

Hi all,

I've also the same problem and found some interesting things (some already mentioned):

1 - If you attach a pdf with only one page, it will appear in line (right click to show as icon). A pdf always shows correctly as an attachment in an Outlook PC.

2 - If you attach a pdf with more then one page, it will appear as icon. A pdf always shows correctly as an attachment in an Outlook PC.

3 - If you attach an image, it will appear in line (right click to show as icon). But the image is shown as a small thumbnail, impossible to open. This is the main problem.

4 - If you attach an image, and also a pdf, they will appear in line (right click to show as icon). Both shows correctly as an attachment in an Outlook PC!

5 - If you zip the image before you attach it (right click on it and compress) it will become a name.jpg.zip, and it will be an icon and shows correctly as an attachment in a Outlook PC (just uncompress it to some place in the PC).

6 - As in 5, you can first put the image/s inside a folder and then compress it. Works fine as in 5.

All these to avoid the the images in signature also get transformed in icons, as it happens if you use the above mentioned terminal command.

Not the ideal solution, thought.

Regards,

Rui Guerra

Forgot to mention another option:

7- Always have an empty folder created in your desktop. Just like in the solution 4, just also attach it with the image, and both will shows correctly as an attachment in an Outlook PC!

I have found Clive Galeni's Anti-Inline add-on for Mail. That solves the issues of sending attachments to Windows users. And for large files I just create a new folder, place the files in that, and upload it to my Drop Box account and place the Drop Box link in the body of the email.

I do not know. I do not use photos in my email signature. Maybe contact Clive. Photos just make the signature / email file larger and my goal is to keep emails smaller in size. I'm using iMac and Mail for business and my clients already know what I look like. And photos in signatures are often just considered "ads" for your company or product. Not necessary.

I've done some more experiments and if one puts the photos/folder at the beginning of the e-mail the PC/Outlook recipient will no see the body text of the image (so, always put the attachments at the end).

Note - Even with the Edit>Attachments>Insert attachments at the end of the message, it will not work if you have the cursor at the beginning or at the middle of the message. So first put the mouse at the end of the message and then:

1 - Add the photo (doesn't matter if you see it as an icon or not).

2 - Add an empty folder, named "empty" (to warn the recipient that it doesn't contain any information)

This is the best solution I've come so far.

Cheers,

I've resigned myself to living with it. Apple is NEVER going to make Mail compatible with MS Outlook which 90% of the business world uses. It's dumb because they could sell more machines but they just will not do it. Yes, there are some other 3rd party email clients that run on Mac but none of them stand out to me.

Rui, Just be cautious about upgrading when the next OS X version rolls out. I found myself in a situation with a similar plugin that solved the problem but then when I upgraded to Yosemite the plugin was not compatible.

Thanks, Douglas.

Before Yosemite I was using Attachment Tamer that doesn't work with Yosemite nor with El Capitan. That's why I moved on to Anti Inline.

Hopefully, in the future, if this plugin stops to be supported for future OS X versions, maybe someone else make another working plugin, to solve the problems that Apple should solve in the first place... Unfortunately, not all the world use Mac or Mail, so the Mac users must be able to continue to communicate with other operating systems.

Cheers,

Hi Sandoer

Could you instruct me on the correct Terminal line to turn this facility off ?

I now need to imbed Word.doc files within a Mail message. I tried the obvious:

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool NO

defaults write com.apple.mail EnableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool YES

But neither worked.

I’m running Mail 9.3 on 10.11.5

With thanks

Jack

A few days ago I finally tried Clive Galini's OS X Mail Anti Inline Plugin and within an hour went back and purchased it. Best $15 I've ever spent on an app and it does everything advertised, fixing all the problems or issues in this thread. http://clivegaleni.com/os-x-mail-anti-inline-plugin/