Attaching images in Mail

Hello!
I've only recently started using Mail.
I work from home, freelance as an illustrator.
As you can imagine I have to send a lot of images, usually as JPGs or PDFs.
I'm having a major problem with this:
Mail converts the PDFs into small thumbnails in the line of the email,
which is fine.
but it's not attaching the file itself.
for example, I need to send a client a 300dpi A3 poster for them to print.
the image they are recieving is the thumbnail alone, 300Kb JPG
the file I need to send them is a 3MB PDF
I've tested it to three different recieving mail clients and it happens with them all. This is going to make Mail impossible for me to use for my work if this cannot be resolved
help!

pez_queen,
When I attach a document/picture an "Image Size" selection choice appears in the bottom right hand corner of the "New Message" window. This selection includes choices for:
Actual Size
Small
Medium
Large
Have you tried choosing another size?
;~)

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I am wondering if this is just me, I tried to attach an image by dragging and dropping the actual image in the body of the email. It shows a Plus sign on the mouse pointer but nothing has been attached. Then I tried using the attach button on the compose window but it still does not work.
However, if I drag the file onto the dock, Mail will display a new compose message with the attachment.
So does anyone have the same problem??

I've been having issues as well. After toggling the "insert attachments at end" and getting varied results, I stumbled upon another potential workaround. In entirely blank messages, attachments cannot be added unless the sender first places the cursor in the message body and hits return once (that is with "insert at end" selected).
If replying to a message, this isn't any problem. It seems that Mail needs to know where the end of the message is, and can only do so if there is existing text (a reply or newly composed message), or at least a carriage return.
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How can you add an image in Mail without being an attachment?
In otherwords I'd like to put my logo in the email not as an attachment but as an image.
Is there a simpel solution to this problem?

PBN1 wrote:
How can you add an image in Mail without being an attachment?
You don't.
It's not possible. The e-mail protocol is designed for text; anything else has to go as an attachment.
Different mail clients (such as Mail.app, the mail client bundled with Mac OS X) may have different ways of handling such attachments, but they are still attachments. Each mail client has its own rules and methods, so one may display a picture as if it were in the body of the message, but another client may do something completely different.
A way of faking it is to format your message in HTML (which is a kind of text). The image is hosted on a remote server, not added to the message; instead, you include a link to it in the body of the message, as you would when building a web page. (This is also what the two tips helpfully provided by X423424X do, except that the link to the image is added in the signature, rather than the body of the message.) What exactly happens to it is, again, at the discretion of the mail client. In my case, for instance, displaying images in HTML messages is turned off, and will stay resolutely off.

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I know, it's been a problem since the evolution of Apple Mail, but it's finally about to drive me to another email client. In the past I've been able to use Attachment Tamer to attach images to outgoing emails, but now its developer has all but vanished and most likely abandoned the application, even though it's always been a 5-star app that worked well with Mail.app. It was never fully released for Mavericks and the Mavericks beta won't work at all with Yosemite. Bottom line is why does Apple have this aversion to allowing images to be attached to an email and force users to embed images inline? Does anyone know of any workarounds to attach images to an email?

You might try this:
In a normal mail attachment the header info before the MIME encoded image/file info is this:
--Apple-Mail-B7254802-404D-423E-86F7-1DCE849C83E8
Content-Type: application/vnd.iwork.pages.archive;
name="Blank 2.pages.zip"
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="Blank 2.pages.zip"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
In a Mac Mail in-line attachment the header info before the MIME encoded image/file is this:
--Apple-Mail=_7D45E9DC-5540-4CB6-8490-C71D4016573C
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename=pdf.pdf
Content-Type: application/pdf;
x-unix-mode=0644;
name="pdf.pdf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Try editing the file outside of mail in a Terminal window (like with vi or vim or nano or whatever you favorite text editor is) and change (don't include the double-quotes only used for illustration):
1. Change the "Content-Disposition" from "inline" to "attachment;"
2. Under no circumstances change the line starting with "--Apple-Mail" as that contains a long hex string that terminates the MIME data
I would make a copy of the test mail message rather than edit the original message so that if something goes wrong, you haven't done any permanent change.
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Guys ,
I am trying to add an image as attachment to an e-mail.
I am reading the image from the table and then passing it as a BLOB in my procedure.
Following is the part of the code which adds the attachment
{code}
PROCEDURE add_mail_attachment
              in_att_mime_type in varchar2 character set any_cs default 'text/plain; charset=us-ascii',
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              in_att_file_name in varchar2 character set any_cs default null,
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l_mail_conn       utl_smtp.connection;
l_step            PLS_INTEGER :=2147483647;
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      END LOOP;
      utl_smtp.write_data(l_mail_conn, utl_tcp.crlf || utl_tcp.crlf);
    end if;
   EXCEPTION
   WHEN OTHERS THEN
      sbs_error.error_handler(
             in_error_no   => SQLCODE,
             in_error_txt => SQLERRM,
             in_show_stack => TRUE
end;
{code}
And this is the code which i am running to test the code
{code}
declare
in_sender                                                         varchar2(200);
in_recipients                                    varchar2(200);
in_subject                                                         varchar2(200);
in_message                                                      varchar2(200);
in_att_mime_type                                        varchar2(200);
in_attachment                                                blob;
in_att_file_name                                           varchar2(200);
in_cc                                                                        varchar2(200);
in_bcc                                                     varchar2(200);
out_mail_conn                                               utl_smtp.connection;
in_mail_conn                                   utl_smtp.connection;
v_blob                                        blob;
begin
      in_sender := '[email protected]';
      in_recipients := '[email protected]';
      in_subject := 'Image attachment';
      in_message := 'Test mails ,Please delete';
      in_cc:='[email protected]';
      in_bcc:='[email protected]';
      select image into v_blob
      from table
      where condition
      sbs_util.sbs_p_email_pkg_raunaq1.open_mail
      in_sender     => in_sender,
      in_recipients => in_recipients,
      in_subject    => in_subject,
      in_message    => in_message,
      in_cc         => in_cc,
      in_bcc        => in_bcc,
      out_mail_conn => out_mail_conn
      in_att_mime_type := 'application/x-pdf';
      in_attachment := v_blob;
      in_att_file_name := 'Att1.pdf';
      sbs_util.sbs_p_email_pkg_raunaq1.add_mail_attachment
      in_att_mime_type => in_att_mime_type,
      in_attachment     => v_blob,
      in_att_file_name => in_att_file_name,
      in_mail_conn      => out_mail_conn
      sbs_util.sbs_p_email_pkg_raunaq1.close_mail(out_mail_conn);
END;
{code}

And this is the code which i am using :
There are basically 3 procedures
1.Open_mail() - Which is used to open a connection and start a mail message, The code is below
PROCEDURE open_mail (
                    in_sender         IN VARCHAR2 CHARACTER SET ANY_CS,
                    in_recipients     IN VARCHAR2 CHARACTER SET ANY_CS,
                    in_subject        IN VARCHAR2 CHARACTER SET ANY_CS DEFAULT NULL,
                    in_message        IN VARCHAR2 CHARACTER SET ANY_CS DEFAULT NULL,
                    in_cc             IN varchar2 character set any_cs default null,
                    in_bcc            IN varchar2 character set any_cs default null,
                    out_mail_conn     OUT UTL_SMTP.CONNECTION
AS
l_mail_conn       UTL_SMTP.CONNECTION;
l_email_addresses   VARCHAR2(32767);
l_send_email_add    VARCHAR2(32767);
BEGIN
IF in_sender IS NULL OR in_recipients IS NULL THEN
RAISE e_null_email_add;
END IF;
l_email_addresses:=in_sender||','||in_recipients;
l_send_email_add:=rtrim(in_recipients||','||in_cc||','||in_bcc,',');
IF (validate_email_address(l_email_addresses) AND validate_email_address(l_send_email_add))   --if none of the email addresses are invalid ,then go for mail
THEN
l_mail_conn := UTL_SMTP.open_connection(co_smtp_server, 25);
--establish the connection
--The snapon based smtp host is smtp.snapbs.com
--The default smtp port being 25
UTL_SMTP.helo(l_mail_conn, co_smtp_server);
UTL_SMTP.mail(l_mail_conn, in_sender);
--Incase we have multiple recipients ,we need to loop through the recipient ,invoking
--utl_smtp.rcpt once for each recipient ,mutiple recipien
    FOR i IN ( SELECT REGEXP_SUBSTR (l_send_email_add, '[^,]+', 1, LEVEL) AS recipient -- Replaced in_recipients with l_send_email_add
                FROM DUAL
                 CONNECT BY REGEXP_SUBSTR (l_send_email_add, '[^,]+', 1, LEVEL) IS NOT NULL )
    LOOP
    UTL_SMTP.rcpt (l_mail_conn, i.recipient );
    --using the same connection established to send mails to multiple recipients
    END LOOP;
UTL_SMTP.open_data(l_mail_conn);
UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_mail_conn, 'Date: ' || TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_mail_conn, 'To: ' || IN_RECIPIENTS || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_mail_conn, 'Cc: ' || IN_CC|| UTL_TCP.CRLF);
UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, 'Bcc: ' || in_bcc|| UTL_TCP.crlf);
UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, 'From: ' || in_sender || UTL_TCP.crlf);
UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, 'Subject: ' || in_subject || UTL_TCP.crlf);
UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, 'Reply-To: ' || in_sender || UTL_TCP.crlf);
utl_smtp.write_data(l_mail_conn, 'MIME-Version: 1.0' || utl_tcp.crlf);
UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, 'Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="' || co_msg_boundary || '"' || UTL_TCP.crlf || UTL_TCP.crlf);--Ref#3
if in_message is not null then
    UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, '--' || co_msg_boundary || UTL_TCP.crlf);
    UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"' || UTL_TCP.crlf || UTL_TCP.crlf);
    UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, in_message);
    UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, UTL_TCP.crlf || UTL_TCP.crlf);
END IF;
out_mail_conn:=l_mail_conn;
ELSE
RAISE e_invalid_email_add;
END IF;
2. Add_mail_attachment-To add the attachment to the e-mail , the code is below
PROCEDURE add_mail_attachment
              in_att_mime_type in varchar2 character set any_cs default 'text/plain; charset=us-ascii',
              in_attachment     IN BLOB ,
              in_att_file_name in varchar2 character set any_cs default null,
              in_mail_conn      IN UTL_SMTP.CONNECTION
IS
l_mail_conn       utl_smtp.connection;
l_step            PLS_INTEGER :=24573;
BEGIN
    l_mail_conn:=in_mail_conn;
    if in_att_file_name is not null then
      UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, '--' || co_msg_boundary || UTL_TCP.crlf);
      utl_smtp.write_data(l_mail_conn, 'Content-Type: ' || in_att_mime_type || '; name="' || in_att_file_name || '"' || utl_tcp.crlf);
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end if;
end;
--I have skipped the exception part
3.Close_mail () - This procedure closes the connection and sends the e-mail , the code is as follows
PROCEDURE close_mail(
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is
l_mail_conn       UTL_SMTP.CONNECTION;
begin
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    --Indicates that the e-mail message is complete
    UTL_SMTP.close_data(l_mail_conn);
    --Quit the connection
    UTL_SMTP.quit(l_mail_conn);
END;
--This is the complete code , Can you suggest where i am erring?
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