On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, [email protected] wrote: } Thunderbird handles it fine, though if you turn off display of inline } attachments it will also not display the final text part (both are } presented as attachments); as a practical matter, unless you know the } capabilities of your recipient, i would avoid inline images in plain } text email
I think the issue is where one drags a file when composing in Mail.app. I have the habit of writing things, when helping friends/family, and taking screenshots as examples. Eg: I would include some text and say, "as the image below shows", and then drag a Skitch-created jpg below that text, then continue typing more text. If I, instead, drag the images to the bottom of the e.mail, then Mail.app apparently attaches them "like normal" and the recpient sees my entire text and attachments. An "inline" image, as you stated, is just one part of a message that has multiple attachments. Since I mainly use Pine/Alpine [a text-based e.mail MUA], I often see text, then a place-holder text showing that there's an image, and then more text. I'm not crazy about the fact that Outlook or other e.mail MUAs apparently ignore any text "after" an image is attached. When using Postbox/Thunderbird, I've never done an "inline" image, since dragging a screenshot to the T-bird compose window simply opens up an attachment pane which the image gets placed in. [it's actually a rather cool feature]. I have VMware and a Win2k and WinXP install that I should play with and see which version[s] of Outlook don't like this [or if T-bird doesn't as well]. I'm a very anti-HTML e.mail person, so I have no intention of changing that setting. It just feels like that with Mail.app's ease of use, it seems silly to use old Gopher-style links to the images [eg: where I would normally put screenshot #1, insert text that says, [see screenshot1.jpg], and hope that the recipent pays attention to the filenames, as it would make matters worse if they viewed the 2nd screenshot, thinking it was the first!]. BTW, this is Mail.app with 10.6.8. My dev laptop has 10.7.1, but I've had so many issues with Lion that I only run XCode on it; perhaps this behavior with Mail.app has changed, but looking at the Apple Support forums, I see that even in 10.3 Mail.app was behaving the same way. :( /vjl/ _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
