Comments on: Mac OS X Mail Problem: Attached Images Show Up Embedded In Outlook & Other Clients

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:40:43 +0000

This worked for me at first but now it is embedding jpgs and png files again and now it is squishing the embedded image. Has anyone else had this problem?

By: Moll

Moll — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:25:38 +0000

I found this solution, tried it and it works immediately.

"Mail.app by default displays images inline, and most email clients won’t recognize them as attachments. If you right click (or ctrl click with a one button mouse) on the image you can select to view the image as icon, which makes it behave like a normal attachment. To make this the default behavior you’ll need to use the Terminal to set the preference. Terminal is in Applications>Utilities. Open Terminal and type:

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes

That will make every attachment you send act like an attachment instead of a pretty unusable decoration."

This is from another user. See it here:
Disable Mac Mail.app Inline Image Attachments | Micah Gilman's Blog

I did it and it worked. I QUIT Mail after using Terminal, and then relaunched Mail, but did not need to restart the Mac.

By: Isaac Keyet

Isaac Keyet — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:48:05 +0000

I'm 100% with you.

By: Zan

Zan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:24:13 +0000

Ok, but clearly Microsoft has solved the problem of being able to have rich text and html emails that ALSO allow attachments to deliver properly, whereas MAC has NOT solved this problem effectively. I love MAC, but why haven't they set this up properly? I hate to see Microsoft solve something that MAC hasn't!

By: Melanie

Melanie — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:07:19 +0000

So helpful, Thank you

By: Isaac Keyet

Isaac Keyet — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:38:05 +0000

Yeah, it's that simple

By: MartinaMaas

MartinaMaas — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:21:21 +0000

Sometimes it’s really that simple, isn’t it? I feel a little stupid for not thinking of this myself/earlier, though.

By: Isaac Keyet

Isaac Keyet — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:10:08 +0000

test

By: Smith

Smith — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:58:34 +0000

Oh Thank God.. You da Man!

By: Fernando

Fernando — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:24:54 +0000

Here another problem, my sign with this configuration appear as attachment