Hi Ronni
I sent an email to Adam Noheji asking about sending attachments as
icons to Mail users and the enclosed is his reply - much as you
suspected I think?
I will also send it to the WAMUG mailing list also as he seems to
offering a discount until the end of the year. I now see some more
explanations there too. This has stirred up a lot of interest hasn't
it ?
Regards Allen
Begin forwarded message:
From: Adam Nohejl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 16 December 2007 7:42:24 AM
To: Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mail Iconizer 2.0
2007/12/15 v 1:55, Allen:
Is there any way I can send an attachment, ie a .jpg photo, so
that it stays as an icon until the Apple Mail recipient is ready
to open it?
Dear Allen,
That is a good question and unfortunatelly the short answer is no.
There are actually ways to circumvent this, I will get to it in a
moment, but I will first give you some background:
1. How it should work by the standards (RFCs for the sake of
acurracy): Each attachment in a message has a so called content
disposition that tells the software whether to view it in place
("inline" content disposition) or as an icon ("attachment" content
disposition).
2. How it works in Apple Mail without Mail Attachments Iconizer:
Attachments are always sent with inline content disposition (even
if you tell Mail to display a particular attachment as an icon
before sending) and received attachments are always displayed in
place if it is possible regardless of their content disposition.
3. No tricks like setting attachment's content type to for instance
from image/png to application/octet-stream will force Mail to
display an attachment as an icon.
That said, if the recipient has Mail Attachments Iconizer
installed, content disposition is respected by default and images
are sent out with a correct content disposition.
Another way to solve the problem is to (manually) zip every
spurious attachment before sending it to Apple Mail users without
Mail Attachments Iconizer. (Another option is to put the attachment
on the web and putting a link in the message, but this way there is
no actual attachment in the message.)
Our Mac users group recently had a discussion about this so
others are interested too.
Me too, I am actually a member of a local MUG in the Czech Republic
and I am in charge of our mailing list and that iss where I got the
idea to create Mail Attachments Iconizer from:).
I am really interested in the results of your discussion. If there
are any ideas of what would be a good solution to the problem I
will be glad to hear them.
The best idea I have been able to come up with so far is to add an
option to Mail Attachments Iconizer to automatically zip outgoing
attachments (based on some criteria).
Greetings to your user group and here is a little Christmas gift
for the members: a 34% discount on Mail Attachments Iconizer, the
coupon code is MUGICONIZER and it is valid until the end of the
year. (This corresponds to $9.89 for single user license and and
$98.34 for a site license.)
Looking forward to hearing from you,
--
Adam Nohejl
Lokiware
http://lokiware.info
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