OS Sierra Mail not showing Paper Clip icon for Attachments

In addition to previous post found this one, not first time it has happened!

Mail no longer shows attachments in paper clip column

But on this occasion it was with the Sent box - will submit to Apple through Bug Report and await to see if they acknowledge issue.

Same problem for me:

- When I send POP emails, I can remove attachments in the sent folder.

- Only when I receive emails, there is no way to remove the attachments.

See also my other thread:

Sierra Mail - Remove Attachments doesn't work!

(+ an old thread where you can read about an earlier occurance of this problem:

After using "Remove Attachments" emails appear to be corrupted (Yosemite 10.10.5))

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My understanding is that attachments are now embedded into mail as inline files therefore will not show up as paper clipped attachments in POP accounts - also you can no longer delete these attachments - very annoying - with every upgrade for the last few apple has "twigged" mail and made it worse.

When I was on with support from Apple they never mentioned that once. Basically came down to them wanting me to do a clean install of the OS which I opted to ignore for obvious reasons. If it POP mail was working fine on my MacBook Pro but not my iMac, then I would try but when I get the exact same problem on multiple machines I am feeling pretty comfortable with ruling out the OS. Apple certainly seems to have gone backwards, I used to be excited with every update as they brought useful features that made life easier. Now not so much. Can't see if I have an attachment in my mail but I do have larger emoticons though so that is progress.... 😕

Same here, paper clip missing from approx Oct 2016 onwards, but for Inbox only - Sent appears unaffected, which is still showing the clip even for the most recent ones, and yes, it's a POP account.

The ability to remove attachments still seems to be available (it's still in the Message menu) but appears to be active only if the paper clip is present.

Believe this post is not that large (yet) because for the average user this issue might not be that noticeable - I didn't realise until I came across this post!

Not sure how many of us still use POP but would think it's now getting quite small when compared to IMAP and if that's the case we might not be high on Apple's priority list for a fix.

Exact same problem on a brand new MacBook pro with freshly installed 10.12.2 (using POP) Have suffered this problem for years -- 10.10 workaround (apply a filter and the paperclips magically appear and are operative) no longer works. Apple, this cannot be that hard to fix. At least, don't make it worse!

While ever mail embeds the attachment as inline instead of an attachment it will be as it is and the only work around is the sent method - Apple does need to fix this because contrary to some general belief POP mail is still relevant when dealing with attachment storage - I simply cant store my attachments on servers so I need to be able to delete them and keep the body of the email in tact - would it be possible for someone to write a script to achieve this like the script Rich in Space wrote when apple mail was making emails unreadable when an attachment was removed a few versions ago - apple take note please of a simple rule of thumb "if it aint broke dont fix it"

Just to update on issue, following Bug Report submission I have received the following:

Engineering has determined that your bug report (29964955) is a duplicate of another issue (7177567) and will be closed.

Although we still have know idea if Apple are actually working towards a fix (but it's likely if they reply to a Bug Report) we can take it that they are now aware of the problem.

Definitely a Sierra issue. Before Sierra worked as it should, 2 computers after upgrading no more paperclip. Not upgrading anymore Macs at work till it is fixed, though honestly I am not expecting anything from them, Apple seems more focused on bigger emojis then actually making the OS work. Gone are the days of "it just works".

OS Sierra Mail not showing Paper Clip icon for Attachments

I've got the same problem too. After upgrading to Sierra on Oct 4th, mail doesn't show the paperclip icon when receiving a mail with attachments in my inbox. It only affects my pop-accounts. Imap hasn't this problem.

It must be a known issue to Apple but why does it remain silent from their side??

Same problem here, no paperclip icon for my pop account (the main accont) all my imaps have a paper clip icons for attachments.

I have a new install of 10.12.3

My Paperclip icon stopped about October (pre Oct. emails have them). Please fix, it's a real pain.

Brand new £3k mac, been a Mac user since the mid 90's. I have rarely had to post a message or contact support. However it is becoming more frequent, please release fewer new OS's and test them better first.

I cannot see my attachements in my Mail, after an upgrade from Yosemite. By the looks of this thread, its not somthing that can be fixed. Another function disregarded while Apple focuses on the mass )more profitable) novelty market and ignore the core users. They have a duty to keep functionality, when they have such a monopoly.

I just tried to add a rule that would flag every email with an attachment, with a gray flag.

It worked on my Gmail and other IMAP accounts, But didn't work for my pop account.

This problem seems to be isolated to the Pop account for me and just started in October 2016