Attachments for my mail to windows

Everyone that received a attach of a picture from my computer the file is in the mensage and not as attach as normal - what can I do to change that.

Although the Mail.app shows all image/photo and smaller PDF attachments (1-2 pages) inline or viewed in place within the body of the message, they are sent as true attachments to the message.
RTF with Tiger Mail is HTML and depending on the Windows version and email client version the recipient is using, this can be a problem. I seen reports this occurs more often with Windows Outlook. I send attachments to Windows users on a regular basis without any problems - or at least none are reported to me.
If you are using RTF for message composition, try using Plain Text instead to see if this resolves the problem. The RTF used with the Mail.app (all versions) has never been read properly by Windows Outlook for some reason.

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Can anyone help me figure out why this suddenly happened?
Thanks!

"I am using the standard (wired) pro keyboard that came with the iMac (G5)."
Interesting!
Your system info confirms you have the G5 iMac w/iSight. So do I & mine did not come w/the Pro Keyboard.
According to Apple's iMac G5 (iSight) - Technical Specifications site:
Hardware accessories: Apple Remote, Apple Keyboard, Mighty Mouse.
Now, to your problem.............
See if trashing the keyboard preference helps and/or repairing permissions.
Does the problem occur in other browsers? If so, maybe updating your OS may help. Just a thought.

I cannot ajust Apple Mail on Windows,

Hello,
I would send mails from Apple Mail on Windows, that seem to be sent from anther account (xxx@gmail for example).
But I cannot enroll an account (like [email protected]) for Apple Mail through Windows, as it is possible in Mail through MacOS.
Sorry for my rough English...
Who can Help me .
Thank You.
M.

Mazelles wrote:
Sure, there is no Apple Mail for Windows, but Windows users can log onto the internet : https://www.icloud.com/#mail ; and recover on this web site mails from thir account at Gmail or other...
No they can not, iCloud does not transport or store other providers email, to get your gmail you would go to www.gmail.com.
On Apple Mail (Mac or iPhone...), you can enroll your account @gmail (or other) then import your mails from Gmail to Mail (icloud) ; So you can recover on Mail messages aérrived on Gmail account (or other). And also you can send messages that seem to be sent from this other account.
When you log onto the internet : https://www.icloud.com/#mail ( from a PC / Windows ) you can not enroll a new account (gmail or other) ; and so you cannot sent any mails that seems to be sent from your
Gmail address (as you can do on Mail ).
Is there a way to do this ? (the same thing on icloud/Mail as on Mac/Mail : to send mails that seem to be sent from your gmail account, or other)
Thank you.
M.
Your iPhone and your iPad (if you have one) are clients, they can be connected to multiple email systems (gmail/icloud/yahoo etc). The website is only 1 email system, it is the iCloud system, Gmail and others have their own websites. If you use Outlook on your PC for email you can get any mail you want, because, just like your phone, it is a client.

Opening a client file - Mail attachments for example

Building a swing client mail application has one huge hickup and can't think of a good solution. How do you automatically open an email attachment?? If its a .doc document, it should open a word document automatically instead of reinventing the wheel and code some Java RTF viewer.
A lot of attachments are compressed, you mean you have to code it all in Java? That would be absurd? With 100 now common mime types, anyone have any good suggestions of doing this.
For example - Would the windows "start" command be a good idea to simply open the folder if not a text/html or image (gif/jpg) file?
What about linux and unix and mac?? Whats the OS command to open the mail cache attachments folder? Not happy that Java doesn't support a native method to open a file. Why is that?
Hope people reply to this and bring some ideas that are effective and would not be too troublesome to implement or re-invent the wheel??
Thanks
Abraham Khalil

If you peruse cross-platform browsers and mail clients (like Mozilla), you'll see that most provide in their editable configurations a mapping of mime-types to applications. Using this, a user can specify what command to give to the hosting platform to execute when a mime-type is opened.
Some platforms, like windows, provide a mime-type mapping service. You can add platform specific code to take advantage of this. Mozilla allows you to, for a mime-type, specify the default application from the platform or your own.
Compressed files also have their own mime-type, so the associated application would take care of that.
I hope you find this of some help.

I have been unable for the past few days to download attachments to E-mails on my Mac OS using Firefox

I have been able to download attachments to E-mails for years. However, for the last several days the download process which seems okay but the attachment doesn't show up on the screen and a note appears about a blank document. When I switch to Safari, the downloads work fine. Therefore, I assume that the problem is with Firefox.

Hello,
'''Try Firefox Safe Mode''' to see if the problem goes away. Safe Mode is a troubleshooting mode, which disables most add-ons.
''(If you're not using it, switch to the Default theme.)''
* You can open Firefox 4.0+ in Safe Mode by holding the '''Shift''' key when you open the Firefox desktop or Start menu shortcut.
* Or open the Help menu and click on the '''Restart with Add-ons Disabled...''' menu item while Firefox is running.
''Once you get the pop-up, just select "'Start in Safe Mode"''
'''''If the issue is not present in Firefox Safe Mode''''', your problem is probably caused by an extension, and you need to figure out which one. Please follow the [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]] article for that.
''To exit the Firefox Safe Mode, just close Firefox and wait a few seconds before opening Firefox for normal use again.''
''When you figure out what's causing your issues, please let us know. It might help other users who have the same problem.''
Thank you.

Attachments in e-mails won't open

Yesterday all was fine but today, when I double click on attachments within e-mails, they won't open. Clicking 'save to computer' also doesn't work. Any ideas?
Thanks
PS I am using btinternet as my e-mail provider

Please follow these directions to delete the Mail "sandbox" folders. In OS X 10.9 there are two sandboxes, while in earlier versions there is only one.
Back up all data.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu.* A Finder window should open with a folder named "com.apple.mail" selected. If it does, move the selected folder — not just its contents — to the Desktop. Leave the Finder window open for now.
Log out and log back in. Launch Mail and test. If the problem is resolved, you may have to recreate some of your Mail settings. You can then delete the folder you moved and close the Finder window. If you still have the problem, quit Mail again and put the folder back where it was, overwriting the one that may have been created in its place. Repeat with this line:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.MailServiceAgent
Caution: If you change any of the contents of the sandbox, but leave the folder itself in place, Mail may crash or not launch at all. Deleting the whole sandbox will cause it to be rebuilt automatically.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combinationcommand-C. In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V). You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

"Save attachments" button in Mail has disappeared

My "Save attachments" button in Mail (6.6/1510) disappeared the other day. It has always been there, sitting on the dividing line between message header and message content. But now it's gone. All of a sudden.
Sure, it becomes visible if I select detailed header info, but it should be there even with the simplified header view. At least it has been up to a few days ago.
Any tips on how I get it back? It's a bit annoying to select detalied header info each time I want to save attachments. Dragging and dropping is no option for me, since part of what I want is to se a list of all attachments. The "Save" button provides that feature.

First of all, in the Compose window, click on View and see if Show Toolbar is available as a Command? If so, click on it.
Ernie

Attachments garbled in Mail

I have a friend who recently purchased a 13" Mac Book. The Store/Geniuses got it all setup for her. She also has an existing iMac at home. The issue she has now is that on the Mac Book, when she gets emails that have attachments, they come across garbled. Opening the exact emails on her iMac, things work just fine. She's using Mail on the Mac Book and Thunderbird on the iMac...
Searched here as well as Googled, but only came up with the two main culprits for garbled mail -> corrupted font cache or the existense of Helvetica Fractions or Times New Roman Phonetic. Those problems are fixes for garbled emails (subject line, mail body, etc.), not attachment specific.
I'll probably take possession of the Mac Book soon to see/test for myself, but any help in advance would be much appreciated. Will try the Font Cache Fixers as well as install TBird to see if they help.
Message was edited by: Doanster1

Hello, and welcome to the Discussions.
The suggestion posted would not apply to 10.2.x, but only to 10.3 and later.
In 10.2 and earlier, this was an often seen issue, and we relied upon a program named GrimRipper, available from VersionTracker, to remove the Resource Fork that resulted from file saving in MS Word, but not the other applications in MS Office. While it would have been correctable by MS, I don't believe they ever made such a fix.
See:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16168
Be aware that any subsequent Save As, after ripping, will return the Resource fork.
Entourage was programmed to take care of this, as best I can remember, and the Windows Friendly option was developed by Apple, but not included until Panther.
Ask any questions needed.
Ernie

Image Attachments Won't Open in Windows

Hello,
I'm having some frequently recurring problems sending images (usually JPEG) to Windows users.
For instance, I'll create in Mail an email with two image attachements and send them to a group that includes some Mac folks and some Windows users.
The Mac people have no trouble viewing the images. The Windows users usually write back and say "Try sending again. All I'm seeing is Red X's."
I keep the "Send Windows Frendly Attachments" box clicked. What more can I do?
Thank you!
owerBook G4 15-inch/1.67GHz/1GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.6)
owerBook G4 15-inch/1.67GHz/1GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hate to disagree with howwow, but the Windows Friendly option has nothing to do with the issue of apparent embedding, when that appears. When you use Rich Text, and when the fonts are mixed, and also include attachments, Mail changes the Rich Text to HTML and to SOME recipients the images will appear to be embedded, and will be problematic. It can also change the "status" of attachments enough that Mail will treat them a little differently. The most common sources of mixed fonts when using Rich Text is text included when forwarding or replying, and from a Signature.
Windows friendly functions to remove or alter the metadata that Macs save with image files, and with word documents, including the resource fork. These factors can confuse some Windows base mail clients, although probably NOT those that are kept up-to-date. We once saw the frequent use of an application named GrimRipper just to remove Resource Forks.
The reason the support articles say Windows Friendly may be bad when sending to some Mac users, is that very early operating systems on Macs needed the Resource Fork to know how to open certain files, and could not rely upon only the extension, as Windows does, and OSX can do.
Other metadata that can create problems with SOME Windows mail clients include a Mac style thumbnail. This problem could also be solved by saving a JPEG as Web Ready, or telling the photo application to use no Thumbnail or preview. The EXIF data from digital cameras falls into the category of metadata -- this being the source of date, time, camera settings, etc. that can learned from each photo downloaded from a digital camera -- if included in the format choses by your Mac, that could create a problem.
Hope this helps.
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Attachments to Apple Mails

There are two issues with attachments to Apple Mail.
The first is that they don't work. The mere fact that you have to click "Windows friendly" (which is NOT the default) says that they are processed in some way. Apple, please don't process anything. Just attach the file and send it on its way. You can't change the world single-handed. If folks want to use Windows, that is their (big) problem. Disabling them from receiving attachments sent from us who "get it" so that they give some serious thought to their values in life is not the purpose of providing an attachment feature. (Today I logged in to Gmail to send a .doc attachment. Again).
The second is that Apple does not provide an attachment feature in Mail. It provides an embedding feature. If I wanted to embed stuff in my email, I would look for the command "embed". There isn't one. When I press attach, I don't expect my text, graphics, pdf's and other stuff to appear in-line within my email. I expect them to be ... um, what's the word ... oh yes - attached to my email.
While I'm there, how about basic formatting in Mail - fonts, italics, bold, bullets and numbering. I know you can make it happen, but how about some press-buttons up top, to make it easy, intuitive and simple? Y'know, Applesque...

Welcome to the Apple discussions.
how about basic formatting in Mail - fonts, italics, bold, bullets and numbering.
When composing an email, you can click on the fonts button to change fonts, bigger/smaller, bold, italics, etc. While in an email, on the mail toolbar, if you click on view and customize toolbar, you can move some other buttons to the toolbar for easier formatting access. Of course you can always highlight something you want to underline and push cmd (apple) U, or cmd B for bold, etc.

How to export apple mail to Windows outlook 2013

Is there any possible solution available to export all my data from apple mail to windows systen in outlook 2013.
There are tons of emails that I have managed to save in the past 12 years (believe me there are a lot of them with multiple attachments) and I do not ant to loose any one of them. I Just want to move them to my windows system in outlook 2013 for which I could not find any particular solution.
On the other hand outlook 2013 is unablr to sync all my emails via Imap. It shows multiple errors which I am not able to figure out. PLease suggest any simpler method which posses minimum hassles. Thanks

Watching this long discussion I couldn't resist myself to share my view on this topic. Once in a while I too had the same problem and I had to transfer a **** lot of emails from Apple Mail client to Windows Outlook. Imap failed and was of no use for some stupid mail crashing reason. I searched for manual work-arounds and posted many queries on various mac forum sites (including this one). I received many responses as solutions for manual process but none of them could transfer my emails from apple mail to outlook.
I knew about the email converters but never wanted to pay a single penny for them but unfortunately I had too. I bought this apple mail to pst converter mentioned by TON456 and after archiving apple mail data and moving it to windows system, it took the application only three clicks to convert the email file format to the desired one that outlook can import (i.e, .PST). I saw no point in buying the tool but its the fault of email client makers for not providing the proper import/export means (seems kind of mean to me, as they need us to stick to their client only). Big companies like apple and microsoft should figure out this situation and provide free solutions.
On the other hand if Imap crashes (as mine did too) then users like us have no options other than email converters. Though they are costly but there is no help to user in pointing out those solution posts.
To the thread starter I would suggest to go with Imap mail configuration but if it still doesn't work then using the apple mail to pst converter is only way left. Thanks.

MAIL doesn't show attachments in SENT mail until you open the eMail!!

I mean EUDORA may have been getting grey, but it still today has features that blow MAIL away!
For example: When you attach a document or photo to an eMail in MAIL - then send it; then go back to your SENT eMail BOX - guess what- there is no icon in the ATTACHMENTS (paperclip icon) column indicating that there is an attachment in that eMail. BUT if you open and then close that eMail - wow- magic - the icon now appears.
COMEONTHIS IS CRAZY - why doesn't the icon appear immediately?
I mean this program has probably been around for 5 years now, maybe more; I only started using it a few months ago and you mean to tell me with a billion MacUsers (don't we wish- say 85 million?) out there- no one has noticed this and complained? It's like when you create a new message and you want to increase the font size with the buttons. THEY DON'T WORK unless you are replying to a message. WEIRD AND BAD - come'on apple get this working!!!!!!!!
And yes I have posted to the apple info site as well as here - I'm just hoping that someone can tell me that if I do something then I can cure these evils...
Best regards,
Steve Schulte
Monday 2 August 2010

Thanks for the comment! Actually I have 2 POP and 1 IMAP account. (IMAP is set to keep copies of messages and attachments for online viewing).
But 90% of the time I send using my VOO POP account. I just did a test. I attached a small photo to an eMail that I sent to my work eM address. It went out and then I opened the SENT Mailbox and although the message appears in the SENT box - the attachment ICON does not.
Here's what I think is happening: I keep one window (viewer window) for SENT messages open all the time; and another for IN - plus often have many messages open. I stagger them so that I just click on the left to bring the INBOX to the front; click to the right to bring the SENT box to the front (or use the WINDOW menubar).
OK so if I CLOSE the SENT viewer window, re-do the test (send a message with an attachment) then OPEN the SENT window - voilà the message AND THE ATTACHED ITEM ICON are there. So a bit strange that the MESSAGE appears in the SENT box when the SENT box viewer window is OPEN; but not the attachment icon - unless you either close and reopen the SENT box; or open the message itself. In anycase there should be some automatic refresh here--
AND HERE's something interesting: If I have a SENT viewer window OPEN, send this POP eMail, see the message (but no attachment icon) in the SENT window, but then OPEN a 2nd viewer window guess what? THE ATTACHMENT ICON IS NOT THERE EITHER.
The only way is to have NO SENT VIEWER WINDOW open, and after sending the eM, to then open it and then the attachment is visible. (OR if a sent viewer window is open, then double-click the message and then close it and then the icon appears). This is really bad - you think you've sent an attachment to someone, you check the SENT Viewer Window, and no, it's not showing - but in reality YOU DID SEND THE ATTACHMENT. Very bad that - and one wonders why...
WORSE: I just did the same test sending via my IMAP (MobileMe) account from MAIL and having the sent viewer window closed and then opening it after sending doesn't work! STILL NO ATTACHMENT ICON - one must open the message just sent -- just awful to have to do that so there must be some other settings to set?!?!
Thanks again for your eMail that prompted me to run these tests - perhaps you can try the same and let me know?
Best regards,
Steve Schulte
Tuesday 3 August 2010

Thunderbird fails to send email when "Scan email for junk mail" option is checked in Server Admin

I have 2 clients that need to send mail through my server, one Mac and one Windows. The Mac uses apple mail and the Windows machine uses Thunderbird.
Apple Mail will send fine, it is set up for "Use Default ports 25, 465, 587" and "Use SSL" and "Authentication: MD5 Challenge-response".
Thunderbird refuses to send and I don't even see any errors showing up in the Console on the OS X server under smtpd entries.
If I uncheck the "Scan email for junk mail" option on the server, then Thunderbird will send fine.
Thunderbird is set up as: "smtp port 587 (default)" "connection security: STARTTLS" "Authentication method: Encrypted Password"
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Attachments-Confused about mail downloads location

It seems that my attachments are located at:
steve/library/mail/[email protected]@mail.xxx.com/INBOX.imapmbox/Attachments/<m anyindividualfolders>
They only move to steve/library/mail downloads
if I press the Quick Look button.
If I press the Save button they go to my designated downloads folder, but it takes quite a while to copy.
Is this normal?
I have mail set to keep all msgs and their attachments for offline viewing.
Steve

StevenFrank wrote:
It seems that my attachments are located at:
steve/library/mail/[email protected]@mail.xxx.com/INBOX.imapmbox/Attachments/<manyindividualfolders>
They only move to steve/library/mail downloads
if I press the Quick Look button.
that's quite normal.
If I press the Save button they go to my designated downloads folder, but it takes quite a while to copy.
Is this normal?
That depends on how you set up your imap account preferences. In account preferences->advanced there is a scroll button "keep copies of messages for offline viewing". If you set it to "All messages and their attachments" then there will be no significant delay when you press the Save button.
Also in general preferences you can set the option "Remove unedited downloads" to "when Mail quits". This will clear the folder
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I have mail set to keep all msgs and their attachments for offline viewing.
Steve

How can I remove a email address from my mail from window

Everytime I go and send an email from maverick mail the window from (thats me) has a misspelt address in it and my email often chooses this hence it wont send. I can send this mail by dropping the window down and choosing the rite address i.e. FROM.
I want to remove this address but I can not find it in accounts or on iCloud.
Help needed
Morgan

I am saying instead of manually having to type in your various emails which result in a list popping up including your error-
You need to create a list of emails you use. Therfore you do not have to type everytime you go to send a email, you just choose your correct email from the drop down menu. Simply click of the mouse.
I see now the correct path should read:
Mail>Preference>Accounts>Accounts information>>Email Address
I am suggesting this is the easiest way of dealing with the problem and why would you not already have your list of emails at hand in the drop down menu for ease of work flow.
You maybe able to route out the cache file if you prefer, and delete:
The following resource outlines where the cache folder is stored. Note that the Library folder is hidden by default in OS X Mavericks. To access this folder, hold down option when clicking the Go menu in Finder:
OS X Mavericks: What is the Library folder?
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14330
Mac OS X: How to troubleshoot a software issue
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1199
If the issue does not appear to be related to preferences, a login item, or a kext file, and still persists in Safe Mode, there may be an issue with a cache file in your home folder:
1. From the Finder's Go menu, choose Home.
2. Open the Library folder.
3. Drag the Caches folder to the desktop.
4. Attempt to reproduce the issue.
5. If issue is resolved, drag the Caches folder to the Trash.
6. If issue persists, from the Finder's Go menu, choose Go To Folder.
7. Go to this folder: /Library
8. Drag the Caches folder to the desktop.
9. Attempt to reproduce the issue.
10. If issue is resolved, drag the Caches folder to the Trash.
11. If issue persists, go to step 4.

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