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Q: 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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  • by douglasfromboise,

    douglasfromboise douglasfromboise Jan 9, 2015 9:04 AM in response to Ajkilroy
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    Jan 9, 2015 9:04 AM in response to Ajkilroy

    Thanks for sharing this, I wasn't aware there was another potential solution out there aside from Attachment Tamer.  It seems odd to me that freelance developers can recognize the deficiency in Apple Mail and solve that problem while Apple chooses to not even acknowledge there is an issue.  As for me I've said my piece with Apple and have migrated all my email, contacts and calendar to Outlook 2011 (as the aloof Apple "Sr Mail Support" person suggested).  I've not been a big fan of Microsoft in the past which is why my house and business are all Mac but I have to admit they definitely have a much better mail application that allows me to now communicate with my clients more efficiently . . . this even with their Mail application being four years old.  

  • by Cosman,

    Cosman Cosman Jan 21, 2015 12:49 PM in response to nickgates
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    Jan 21, 2015 12:49 PM in response to nickgates

    I have an idea.  Someone post Tim Cook’s email address here and let’s flood his personal email with complaints and lots of attachments.  Maybe that will wake him up.

  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Jan 21, 2015 4:09 PM in response to Cosman
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    Jan 21, 2015 4:09 PM in response to Cosman

    Cosman wrote:

     

    I have an idea.  Someone post Tim Cook’s email address here and let’s flood his personal email with complaints and lots of attachments.

    Why? The attachments will show up fine in Mail which he is using. It's not like he's using Outlook for Windows where the half-arsed coding causes problems for everyone.

  • by Cosman,

    Cosman Cosman Jan 21, 2015 7:25 PM in response to Barney-15E
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    Jan 21, 2015 7:25 PM in response to Barney-15E

    The point was to flood him with compliants.  Attachments are secondary.

  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Jan 21, 2015 8:07 PM in response to Cosman
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    Jan 21, 2015 8:07 PM in response to Cosman

    Cosman wrote:

     

    The point was to flood him with compliants.  Attachments are secondary.

    You should flood Steve Balmer with attachments. Maybe he'll notice his email client can't handle internet standard emails.

  • by Sandoer,

    Sandoer Sandoer Feb 1, 2015 12:00 PM in response to nickgates
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    Feb 1, 2015 12:00 PM in response to nickgates

    Hello all,

     

    As a lone Mac in a Windows business environment, I've depended greatly upon Attachment Tamer to avoid these issues. However, with the discontinuation of that product, I've been fighting with Mac Mail since October. After researching a bit I have found a workaround that seems to be working for Yosemite 10.10 and Mac Mail 8.1. To fix things on my end I used the Terminal Command:

     

    defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool YES

     

    This now allows me to drag and drop files without seeing them inline. To fix things on the Outlook end, I found a small plugin, offered for free by Clive Galeni here:

     

    http://clivegaleni.com/posts/os-x-yosemite-10.10.1-and-mail-8.1-anti-inline-plug in-update/

     

    This seems to keep the files as attachments when opened by the Windows users I correspond with. I've tested it with a few folks in the office and it seems to be holding up. We'll see how long it lasts as programs get updated. I hope this helps.

  • by That1Marcus,

    That1Marcus That1Marcus Feb 3, 2015 11:11 AM in response to Eric Root
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    Feb 3, 2015 11:11 AM in response to Eric Root

    Hi Eric,

     

    Can you help? I tried Disable Inline command that you posted but it didn't work. I'm trying to force mail to display attachments as icons instead of images.

     

    Thanks,

     

    Marcus

  • by PetteriKivimäki,

    PetteriKivimäki PetteriKivimäki Feb 4, 2015 7:17 AM in response to Barney-15E
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    Feb 4, 2015 7:17 AM in response to Barney-15E

    Well the attachments do not show properly even in my Gmail - the images I send from Yosemite Mail appear small and without a name - so its not only the Outlook to blame.

     

    Ridiculously; the image sent from iPhone Mail are O.K. and the SAME images from Yosemite is small and without a name!

     

    Please Apple, buy Lokiware or something.

  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Feb 4, 2015 4:20 PM in response to PetteriKivimäki
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    Feb 4, 2015 4:20 PM in response to PetteriKivimäki

    PetteriKivimäki wrote:

     

    Well the attachments do not show properly even in my Gmail - the images I send from Yosemite Mail appear small and without a name - so its not only the Outlook to blame.

     

    Ridiculously; the image sent from iPhone Mail are O.K. and the SAME images from Yosemite is small and without a name!

     

    Please Apple, buy Lokiware or something.

    Why would you expect to see a name if you can see the image. The file is irrelevant to the content of the file.

    In OS X, you can select the file size of the image, but again, it is up to the receiving email client to display it at whatever size is appropriate.

    I just sent a Medium sized picture to my gmail account and it looks fine, nicely centered in the message.
    Here is an example of a low-res image sent at actual size, as displayed in Gmail. What is wrong with it?

    Dog on Couch.png

  • by picaman121,

    picaman121 picaman121 Feb 8, 2015 3:32 PM in response to Sandoer
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    Feb 8, 2015 3:32 PM in response to Sandoer

    Thank you for this! There is an update for Yosemite 10.10.2. This solves the problem of the inline attachments on the Windows end. Used the Terminal command to set the default Mail.app preference to show attachments as icons when dragged & dropped into a new email on the Mac. I just hope this plugin doesn't need an update with every OS X update.

     

    And everyone is right...shame on Apple for letting this problem continue for all these years. Thanks to Clive Galeni for doing what Apple should be doing on its own!

     

    Anti Inline Plugin - updated for OS X Yosemite 10.10.2

  • by kingluc79,

    kingluc79 kingluc79 Feb 16, 2015 10:42 PM in response to nickgates
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    Feb 16, 2015 10:42 PM in response to nickgates

    I found a solution that works! And it has been updated for the most recent OS X 10.10.2 update!

     

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

  • by RefreshenUp,

    RefreshenUp RefreshenUp Feb 20, 2015 9:00 AM in response to nickgates
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    Feb 20, 2015 9:00 AM in response to nickgates

    Seems simple and not sure how the mail recipient sees it on their side but if you control, right-click there is an option to 'View as Icon'.

     

    NEVERMIND.  Still sends as an inline message. Why can't there just be an option to 'Send as Icon'? Ugh!

  • by hvail,

    hvail hvail Mar 3, 2015 8:05 PM in response to casey451
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    Mar 3, 2015 8:05 PM in response to casey451

    It is my understanding that the individual doing Attachment Tamer has given up developing it himself under Yosemite and is working with a larger organization to try to solve the issue.  Check his explanation on the lokiware website.

  • by Sassi Cat,

    Sassi Cat Sassi Cat Mar 12, 2015 1:34 PM in response to nickgates
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    Mar 12, 2015 1:34 PM in response to nickgates

    They are missing Steve Jobs famous temper and ruthless editing to cut through the BS!

  • by Sassi Cat,

    Sassi Cat Sassi Cat Mar 12, 2015 1:40 PM in response to Barney-15E
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    Mar 12, 2015 1:40 PM in response to Barney-15E

    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.

     

    Some us use Macs for work, not sending pretty pictures of dogs!!!!!

     

    (although I do like a nice picture a cute cat!)

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