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Mac mail inline attachments - Yosemite 10.10

Has anyone found a Yosemite work-around yet to send image attachments as file icons that show as icons to Windows users and not images?


Right clicking and "show as icon" works on the Mac but Windows users still get full images in the email body. I send lots of files for my work and this is really really annoying!! Many of my customers are not particularly PC literate and just cannot get the image out of the email.


Have always used Lokiware's Attachment Tamer, but in good old Mac "we don't care what our customers want to do, we will force them to do it our way" fashion, this has been disabled and Lokiware seem to be struggling to come up with an updated version.


Does this annoy anyone else, or is just me?


Nick Gates.

Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Nov 6, 2014 6:07 AM

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Posted on Nov 10, 2014 8:30 AM

No I have no idea. It annoys me so much. I'm a mac guy as much as the next guy, but this is a classic example of a "cool" feature messing with productivity. There are countless other examples. I use my mac to work, swiping between Windows 7 on Fusion just so I can use Excel, and my mac for everything else. I'm about to start using Outlook on Windows. Another thing I don't understand is why don't they just port Microsoft Office to Mac, keep it the same? Why does everyone dumb down and color their software for mac users.


Whatever, Apple stop listening a long time ago.

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Oct 14, 2015 8:29 PM in response to barrygou

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.

Oct 16, 2015 9:15 AM in response to barrygou

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".

Oct 20, 2015 12:03 PM in response to nickgates

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

Oct 20, 2015 12:24 PM in response to PauloROP

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.

Oct 20, 2015 1:15 PM in response to barrygou

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.

Nov 14, 2015 3:01 PM in response to nickgates

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.

Feb 11, 2016 5:24 PM in response to manngroup

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

Mar 1, 2016 12:28 PM in response to nickgates

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.

Mac mail inline attachments - Yosemite 10.10

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