El Capitan Mac Mail is not sending pasted images

We recently upgraded our computers to El Capitan. Since then, we've noticed an issue that is affecting our workflow. We take screen snapshots then paste them into new Mac mail messages. The image shows correctly until you send. At that point, the image is lost and just shows the "image not found" icon. (The question mark). I can look at my sent message and have examined the message source, and the image looks like this: <img src="webkit-fake-url://963fe40b-5ab7-414e-a11c-5c1cdbe19e3e/image.tiff" class=""> which is obviously not right. Since this used to work in previous versions, is this a bug?


The entire message source is shown below:

From: REMOVED

Content-Type: multipart/alternative;

boundary="Apple-Mail=_44E533AB-638F-4125-B8D5-72A88D4B4859"

X-Smtp-Server: 7472C810-D774-4F08-8791-750947EE3F2F

Subject: Test

Message-Id: <6F77B20C-4470-4669-AD7D-036890FA2FEC@removed.com>

X-Universally-Unique-Identifier: 51DD45F9-DA70-4836-AD11-D1F3B4FAE75D

Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 12:59:11 -0500

To: REMOVED

Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.2 \(3112\))



--Apple-Mail=_44E533AB-638F-4125-B8D5-72A88D4B4859

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Content-Type: text/plain;

charset=us-ascii


Test




--Apple-Mail=_44E533AB-638F-4125-B8D5-72A88D4B4859

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Content-Type: text/html;

charset=us-ascii


<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Test<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img src="webkit-fake-url://963fe40b-5ab7-414e-a11c-5c1cdbe19e3e/image.tiff" class=""></div></body></html>

--Apple-Mail=_44E533AB-638F-4125-B8D5-72A88D4B4859--

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)

Posted on Feb 2, 2016 7:36 AM

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Jan 19, 2017 10:27 AM in response to araphael

Still an issue. Not sure why inline images aren't supported anymore in mail.app -- I'm pretty sure it used to work. I ended up just switching to Thunderbird since Apple seems to continually break their own products, but my wife refuses to switch and its driving her nuts that she can't copy and paste images in emails anymore.


I did a test between her system and mine, and after doing what I think was exactly the same thing (copy an image from Preview and paste into email) on her machine and sending it back to my machine I had a PDF attachment of the pasted image shown in Thunderbird.


10.11.6

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