Hi Stephen I used to be annoyed about this myself previously, which was the main reason I didn't use Mail (until Eudora died one time). However I spoke to Peter at a WAMUG meeting one night & he explained to me that the attachment still goes out as an attachment even though we see it as being embedded in the email. I have sent quite a few attachments lately, one being an individual 172 kb screen dump sent by itself & in my email screen it is embedded but I can see it as an attachment as well when I open it from the Sent Box. Then again I have looked at another attachment which is only 80.5 kb & that only appears as an attachment icon - not embedded! I seem to think that I remember Peter also saying that there was somewhere you could turn off this embeddedness, but I must be wrong about it as I can't find that preference.
I still am a little annoyed about it as I find it a bit of a distraction, but then that's just me. Have learnt to live with it. (I hope I haven't misquoted Peter) Cheers, Alex On 03/09/2012, at 9:04 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: > Sorry .. the latest version of Snow Leopard. > > On 03/09/2012, at 7:49 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> Hi Stephen, >> >> You don't mention what OS X you are using, I take it you are using >> Apple Mail. >> Send the attachments as .zip files. Always include file extensions >> at the end of a file's name (.pdf, .doc, .jpg etc. Always use >> Windows-Friendly format. >> >> Try sending attachments in Plain Text format messages. >> >> Using Plain Text vs RTF has dramatic impact to how the message is >> coded, and then for certain receiving email clients, such as >> Outlook and Outlook Express may be problematic, especially if the >> user is not really skillful in such matters. >> >> To see the difference, observe messages sent in each format by >> opening them in the Sent mailbox, clicking on View in the menubar, >> placing your cursor on Message in the resulting pull-down and >> choosing Raw Source. >> With those in RTF, you will note lots of HTML looking code, and if >> an attachment is present, the receiving email client seems to miss >> the header that is in front of every attachment. >> >> Those particular MS email clients don't handle Rich Text Format >> well, and if they send with it, it is in a proprietary version that >> other email clients have trouble with. >> >> Try using Plain Text first. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> Sent from Ronni's iPad >> >> On 03/09/2012, at 6:53 PM, Stephen Chape <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> Does anyone know how to change this ? >>> >>> When I send attachments, sometimes the file is embedded in the >>> body of the email rather than an attachment. >>> >>> Some of my friends (Window users I think) have complained that >>> when they are embedded they are unable to copy the file from the >>> email (for example to desktop). >>> >>> I have noticed (I think) that this happens with small files >>> whereas larger files go as attachments. >>> But I don't know what file size is the "break point" so to speak. >>> >>> Is there something in Mail that enables this to be changed ? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Stephen Chape >>> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug >> > > > > Regards, > Stephen Chape > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
