plain text email attachments

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plain text email attachments

Once upon a time (10.6.8 - earlier this month) when I attached an image to an email there was no html. Now (10.11.4) the image is wrapped in a "Content-Type: text/html;" and since the recipients' server strips out any html (nasty stuff in emails is html) no image is received. I have of course selected plain text as the message format in preferences. Is there a way of putting back nice plain text attachments?

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4), 8GB RAM; 1000GB SSD

Posted on Apr 18, 2016 9:29 AM

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Answer 1

Apr 18, 2016 9:40 AM in response to Austin Kinsella1

I send only plain text e-mail, and send dozens of attachments every day of the week. Not sure what you are seeing, but 1) plain text e-mail still exists and is preferred by some people (at least by me and you, apparently); 2) one can and does send attachments with plain text e-mail (as I have been doing since I have started using e-mail almost 30 years ago).

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Answer 2

Apr 18, 2016 11:37 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

10.6.8 email:

From:

Content-Type: multipart/mixed;

boundary=Apple-Mail-70--1731752

X-Smtp-Server:

Subject:

X-Universally-Unique-Identifier: 76bc60bb-3c49-442f-ad33-b56d30e2675c

Date:

Message-Id: <0CD51E7A-C0DC-4E26-8EB6-972C5300EF22@kinsella.de>

To:

Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085)

--Apple-Mail-70--1731752

Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Content-Type: text/plain;

charset=us-ascii

... message body

--Apple-Mail-70--1731752

Content-Disposition: inline;

filename=

Content-Type: image/jpg;

x-unix-mode=0644;

name=

Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

/9j/4QKPRXhpZgAATU0AKgAAAdgAGQEPAAIAAAAeAAABOgEQAAIAAAAUAAABWAEyAAIAAAAUAAAB

bIKaAAUAAAABAAABgIKdAAUAAAABAAABiIgiAAMAAAABAAAAAIgnAAMAAAABAUAAAJADAAIAAAAU

...

--Apple-Mail-70--1731752--

10.11.4 email - image wrapped in html

From:

Content-Type: multipart/alternative;

boundary="Apple-Mail=_0FFDEECA-9025-410C-8724-22C23B345017"

X-Smtp-Server:

Subject:

Message-Id:

X-Universally-Unique-Identifier: E89056ED-DF25-41BD-8AD6-097E2929FD08

Date:

To:

Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.3 \(3124\))

--Apple-Mail=_0FFDEECA-9025-410C-8724-22C23B345017

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Content-Type: text/plain;

charset=us-ascii

message body

--Apple-Mail=_0FFDEECA-9025-410C-8724-22C23B345017

Content-Type: multipart/related;

type="text/html";

boundary="Apple-Mail=_314A0D6B-BF07-4730-919E-87FDBDBEA95D"

--Apple-Mail=_314A0D6B-BF07-4730-919E-87FDBDBEA95D

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Content-Type: text/html;

charset=us-ascii

<html>repeated message body with link to imge part </html>

--Apple-Mail=_314A0D6B-BF07-4730-919E-87FDBDBEA95D

Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

Content-Disposition: inline;

filename=

Content-Type: image/jpeg;

x-unix-mode=0644;

name=

Content-Id: <BADB9C8F-65EA-4570-B956-C35FC3A8E399>

/9j/4QBKRXhpZgAATU0AKgAAAAgAAwEaAAUAAAABAAAAMgEbAAUAAAABAAAAOgEoAAMAAAABAAIA

AAAAAAAAAAEsAAAAAQAAASwAAAAB/+IMWElDQ19QUk9GSUxFAAEBAAAMSGxjbXMCEAAAbW50clJH

...

--Apple-Mail=_314A0D6B-BF07-4730-919E-87FDBDBEA95D--

--Apple-Mail=_0FFDEECA-9025-410C-8724-22C23B345017--

I can't see a way of telling mail to do it without html.

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