Email attachments ???? they are part of body now

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Email attachments ???? they are part of body now

I've being thinking to bringing this to Apple's attention since way back.

Back in the days, provably a year from now, using your iPhone, iPad or even a Mac you could select or drag a file into an email, and automatically your file will be included in the email as an attachment.

Now days, when you do the same action, your file becomes part of the body of the email.

In my Mac and the MacBook, I have to 1) click on the "clip icon" 2) search for my file 3) click ok.

On iPhone and iPad, I've had to stop sending email unless they're an emergency or with no attachments; but the reason why I decided to bring this to your attention, is because it looks so unprofessional to have a picture of something, when your body email states "Please see attachments" and talk about different things, in my case civil engineering.

The other day, September 7th, 2016. I was at the bank, ordering new checks, and I requested to include my company's logo. Which I have it in my email as a normal attachment, well.... as soon as I forward, from my iPhone, the email to my account manager and to the outsource company to view it and include it, it came as a picture on the body of the email, and they had to save it into their computer to do what we need to do with it.

I would like to know, if I'm doing something wrong, if it's just me. And/or if Apple is planning to go back to this simple software feature.

Posted on Sep 8, 2016 12:41 PM

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Rysz

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Sep 8, 2016 1:03 PM in response to apv312

Everything that you add to an email is transmitted as an attachment. Wheather the attachment is displayed in-line (i.e., previewed in the body of the email) is a preference set by the person RECEIVING the message, not the one SENDING the message. How you see the email is not necessarily how they see that email.

Now a days, most people prefer to see the attachment displayed within the email body, although that varies with the size of the attachment. You should work with the assumption that most people will view the email that way, and be cognizant of where you insert the attachment.

Regardless of wheather it's displayed in-line or not, it's still an attachment and can be saved outside of the email.

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