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Attachments appear within the body of an email by anyone receiving the email generated by Mail. That is NOT acceptable.
I want the attachment to appear as an attachment to the email, not within the body of an email received by the recipient.
Any ideas how to fix this?
If all else fails you could try creating your attachment as .zip file. This is built into Finder by right click Compress.
If all else fails you could try creating your attachment as .zip file. This is built into Finder by right click Compress.
Attachments appear within the body of an email by anyone receiving the email generated by Mail. That is NOT acceptable.
It is not possible to control how your recipient's email client handles attachments.
Yes I can control how a person receives an attachment. Just look at Outlook or Thunderbird as examples. HTML works flawlessly but Mail does not offer that option.
As Mal-S said above, the only way for this to work, is to compress the attachment and send it that way.
Then the receiver can chose to open the attachment or not, without being forced to see the attachment in the message body.
If you send an email as an attachment, it goes as an attachment. A compressed file is merely a file; there's nothing special about it other than the fact that is it compressed ... made smaller in size. and possible a "cabinet" like file But being compressed, it may now fall into that size range that allows it to be an attachment. There are size limits to attachments, but not so much to text.
Attachments I send to all my contacts arrive as attachments, but I make sure the size does not exceed the max limit. And that's been the case for decades.
No, you can’t. There is nothing you can do from the sending end to force the recipients email client to display anything like you want. On some email clients, the recipient can adjust settings on their client to display attachments in-line or not. You cannot do anything to change that.
FWIW:
DISCLAIMER: I have not tried these commands on current versions of Mail running on macOS.
Proceed at your own risk.
Circa 2013, terminal commands could be used to tell Apple Mail running on then-current versions of OS X how YOU wanted Mail to display attachments ON YOUR DEVICE.
The command to disable in-line attachments (attachments appear as icons)
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing 1
The command to (re-)enable in-line attachments once disabled (attachments appear as documents or images displayed in-line)
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing 0
I've seen longer boolean variants of these commands, but if you remember that in binary,1 = ON, 0=OFF, it is easy to understand.
You do t seem to understand that whatever directives you attach to your messages are completely arbitrary for the receiving email client. There are no mandatory display requirements in the email protocol.
Thats a choice you make in Mail. You select the document to be an attachment with the Paper Clip icon.
Wow, that is the only thing that works! Thank you.
Picture attachments appear within or at the end of the email, not as separate attachments.
If you are running Monterey 12.4 and using Mail, that is the case, unfortunately.
How to attach an attachment as an icon and NOT within the body of an email in Mail?
