Attachments lost in Apple Mail

Apple mail is routinely losing attachments in threads. Going back to the original message in a thread the attachments are gone. There are only placeholders with the file names. Rebuilding the mailbox doesn't work and they're gone from iCloud too. Any fixes?

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I am using OS X and some of my customers are not getting attachments sent with Apple mail. This is very frustrating. Someone please help.

I am using OS X and some of my customers are not getting attachments sent with Apple mail. This is very frustrating. Someone please help.

Run the 10.5.8 Combi Updater again, then reboot your Mac.
The Combo updater of Leopard 10.5.8 can be found here:
http://support.apple.com/downloads/Mac_OS_X_10_5_8_Combo_Update

Email attachments corrupted in Apple Mail

Hi, I just had to clean-install OS X Lion (10.7.3), I synched my e-mail accounts (Gmail apps account) with Apple Mail (5.3) and some attachments (mainly PDFs and DOCs) are now corrupted when trying to open up in Apple Mail. In the Google Mail web access the corrupted attachments can be opened perfectly. Has anybody experienced this issue?

Mark, I don't know if you're still following this thread, but I've solved my problem.
The issue is bizarrre but seems to be connected with slow connections (I saw this mentioned elsewhere but had discounted it as rubbish!). It seems the reason the pdf's will not display is that they are getting truncated by Mail.
What I did was to wait until I was connected to a fast internet connection and then rebuilt my mail box (under Mail | Mailbox | Rebuild). I tried rebuilding the mailbox before but I was still connected with my phone and the problem persisted.
It seems to have fixed the issue for me. Hope it may help you.
Andy

Some sent messages lost in Apple Mail

I have a new Macbook Pro early 2015 running Yosemite and use Apple Mail.
I am surprised at how slow outgoing messages are to send, regardless of whether I'm on a fast or slow wifi network, regardless of whether the message has rich content.
More troubling is that once in a while, and I think its for particularly long sends, the sent message never appears in my Sent box.
Rebuilding doesn't restore them.
This is on an imap server. It doesn't use a Path prefix, uses Port 993 and SSL is selected.
Can anyone help? I need to keep my sent messages for reference. I saw an older post like this from 2007 but was never listed as resolved.

BTW, you posted in the Lion forum instead of Yosemite. For best results post in Yosemite the next time.
We need to determine if this is a Spotlight issue or a problem in Mail. It would be helpful to know what type IMAP? iCloud, Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook.com or other.
If you search in Spotlight in the Finder (top right in menu bar) for the message subject does it show up? If yes, can you find the message in Mail search?
HOW TO RE-INDEX YOUR SPOTLIGHT CACHE FILES
Option 1)
From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences.
* Click Spotlight.
* Make sure Mail & Messages is checked under the Search Results tab.
* Click the Privacy tab.
* Drag your drive to the list. Wait a couple of minutes.
* Remove the item you added.
* Spotlight will re-index the contents of the item you initially dragged to the list.
Option 2)
Follow the steps here.
Use OS X Recovery Disk Assistant to reset Your files and folder permissions
When you restart Spotlight will reindex your entire drive.
Option 3)
Copy the text below and open Terminal (in /Application/Utilities). Paste the code into the Terminal window at the prompt.
sudo mdutil -E /
You will be asked for your administrator password (and if you've never used the sudo command you'll need to accept the warning presented). When you type your password, it will look like nothing is being typed. That's normal. Once you've typed your administrator password, press Return.
This will completely remove the Spotlight index and force a new one to be created. Probably not necessary, but I would immediately quit Terminal and restart your Mac.
SUMMARY:
Depending on your Mac and the contents of it's hard disk, re-indexing may take several hours. Doing this overnight is a good option if you have a large drive.
You can tell if it's still in progress by simply looking at the Spotlight menu: There's a blinking dot in the middle of the magnifying glass while indexing is occurring. You can also open Activity Monitor in Applications/Utilities and type in md in the search filter. You should see mdworker32 and mdworker. mdworker32 is the Microsoft Outlook Spotlight index and mdworker is for system.
Until this process is finished, Spotlight won’t know the contents of your disks and neither will Mail.

Is there a limit to the size of attachments sent by Apple Mail 6.2

Sometime when I send an attachment with my emails it goes to by draft mailbox instead of being sent out. What's the deal with this? Is there a size limit that Apple imposes on me.com or cloud.com account?

There is generally a limit set by ALL ISPs or email account providers on attachments. By default (for most anyway) it's 5MB, but some have been known to have more and some can even have unlimited, but the receiver of your email may have a lesser one in which case it won't send through anyway and bounce back to you with a 5.x.x error indicating attachment size blocks. Because of this, most ISPs in the world have tried to standardize on what's currently considered as a "manageable file attachment size".
Also, according to iCloud info, their limit is 20MB for the entire email (message body and attachment).

ATT00001.htm attachment in Outlook when sent with Apple Mail - SOLVED!

Hi All,
We recently discovered the problem where emails with attachments sent from Apple Mail were being received in Outlook, blank but with BOTH the attachment and the email itself as an ATT00001.htm attachment!
I've discovered that the problem kicks in if the attachment is placed BEFORE the email message! If I write an email and then add an attachment AFTERWARD, ie. below the text, there is no problem.
I hope this helps...

Hi, you could try Universal Mailer plugin (http://noware-it.zxq.net), it solves this issue by correctly handling attachments. This also solves the problem for inlined images, which can now be correctly seen by recipients.
PS: following Apple's forum rules I have to state that, since I'm the developer of Universal Mailer, I might make some profits from it. Also, on the website you can find a free version of the plugin, which has some limitation but can be used to test its functionality.

TS3276 Corrupt Attachment in Apple Mail (using IMAP)(on Mountain Lion too)

I got corrupt attachments by using Apple Mail, IMAP on both Gmail and my company email. The problem continues since Lion, Mountain Lion is the same still. Any suggestion?
This is really a trouble to me...
Look, the main reason I bought Mountain Lion on 25th this month is Mail improvement. And seems the hug problem is not solved at all... what a pity...
I might have to go back to the less integrated 3rd party apps... Can some one answer me?

Well no particular file, any file can be corrupted in my experience. I've seen corrupted JPG files, PDF files, MS word files, excel files, and even .zip files.
It doesn't matter who send the email, it could happen on any email in my mail box. When I use other application like Thunderbird or Sparrow doesn't cause such issue.
Believe me I know what I'm doing, with the latest Mountain Lion, Latest Adobe Reader I can get from official website and it does not matter which version I'm having. No antivirus program involved, even if there is antivirus program involved, why I don't get trouble in other mail apps?
The problem is, the attachment files in the email was not correctly downloaded. It doesn't matter which program I use to view it. If I save the attached files onto my desktop, situation remain the same. The only possible way I can do is to rebuild the entire mail database. However, the rebuilding process could be hours for I have tons of emails saved on the server, and it does not guarantee will solve the problem. Why bother spending so much time only simply want to get a file? The point is, by using Thunderbird I can get the file instantly, with Mail I can't?
The following is part of the corrupted file's MIME header. I'm not sure if this is enough for I didn't copy the entire header for it contains some sender information. I would probably not sharing those email addresses.
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=_997f4b2baebbe275a574812f1ca64cdf"
--=_997f4b2baebbe275a574812f1ca64cdf
Content-Type: multipart/ALTERNATIVE;
          boundary="=_44f440161c4f3bd3273d9805e6f1454b"
--=_997f4b2baebbe275a574812f1ca64cdf
Content-Disposition: attachment;
          filename*0="=?UTF-8?Q?GMOs=20=E0=B9=80=E0=B8=A1=E0=B8=A5=E0=B9=87=E0=B8=94 =E";
          filename*1="0=B8=9E=E0=B8=B1=E0=B8=99=E0=B8=98=E0=B9=8C=E0=B8=82=E0=B9=89= E0";
          filename*2="=B8=B2=E0=B8=A7=E0=B9=82=E0=B8=9E=E0=B8=94=E0=B8=AB=E0=B8=A7=E 0=";
          filename*3="B8=B2=E0=B8=9927072555_0000.pdf?="
Content-Type: APPLICATION/PDF;
          name*0="=?UTF-8?Q?GMOs=20=E0=B9=80=E0=B8=A1=E0=B8=A5=E0=B9=87=E0=B8=94=E";
          name*1="0=B8=9E=E0=B8=B1=E0=B8=99=E0=B8=98=E0=B9=8C=E0=B8=82=E0=B9=89=E0";
          name*2="=B8=B2=E0=B8=A7=E0=B9=82=E0=B8=9E=E0=B8=94=E0=B8=AB=E0=B8=A7=E0=";
          name*3="B8=B2=E0=B8=9927072555_0000.pdf?="
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

Apple Mail Inbox Lost

At work we just switched from one email ISP to another due to a DNS blacklist for the old one. When we switched to the new email server and the settings were configured for the new mailbox, my boss lost all of his Apple mail that was on the old server. Is there a way to recover this? I was just checking his settings, and he did not have Mail activated in iCloud. I feel like we had this happen once before, but I'll be darned if I can remember how it was resolved.

You’re welcome.
According to what you said in your first post, this happened as a result of downloading your mail on the iPhone. I have no idea how the iPhone works or what its capabilities are, but are you sure your .Mac account is set up as IMAP there as well and not as POP?
Mail stores most preferences and all the account settings in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist (except the passwords, which are stored in the keychain). Everything else, including all your messages and mailboxes, is stored in ~/Library/Mail/.
Similarly, Address Book (whose data you should back up as well) stores the settings in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist and the data in ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/.
These files can be backed up just like any other data files. The affected applications shouldn’t be running while making the backup.
Actually, while you’re at it, you might as well back up your entire home folder...
For IMAP accounts, if Mail > Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Keep copies of messages for offline viewing is set to All messages and their attachments, Mail keeps a local copy of those messages on your hard disk that becomes part of any backup that includes the ~/Library/Mail folder.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. That is, ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder, i.e. /Users/username/Library.

Apple Mail unable to forward attachments

I called tech support and they said to save an attachment to the desk top - which is fine if it's 1 file and that works. I have one with 8 jpg files that goes with text and all I get are the blue boxes with the
photos missing.
I can't seem to find a work around with Apple Mail so I go to our Gmail account and send it from there.
Any clue when Apple Mail will be improved? Simple tasks it can't seem to perform. With the iMac raved about for its graphics, find it hard to believe that I can't insert my .gif with my name being written by a rose. It's at those moments that I fire up the PC and use IncrediMail.
Thank you.

Thank you for your encouraging post. Since calling Apple Care and the whiz in Apple Mail could only tell me how to forward one attachment, mind sharing how to forward more than one with text?
I'm not forwarding attachments with each e-mail I send - most of our friends share lovely e-mails with animal photos combined with text. One yesterday had 8 photos but when I tried to forward it, I get the blue boxes.
I tried using the forward and then the Message, forward as attachment, but still just the blue box with a question mark in it. If there is something "hidden", it sure isn't in "The Missing Manual" books and neither is tech support aware of it.
Mind sharing? Thank you.
How about changing the color default for outgoing messages? Tried everything and tech support couldn't solve that one either. It's all black; then highlight and then select a color.
Wonderful to 'bump' into someone that knows these answers - sure
appreciate your help.

Apple Mail, Photo Browser, Attachments and Yosemite

OK,
Help.
Anytime I want to insert a photo from my iPhoto Library into Apple Mail via Photo Browser in Yosemite Mail, it crashes.
My preferred method - Via add attachments - Finder/Pictures/Iphoto library doesn't work anymore. It now says Open iPhoto library.
Why does Apple change these things without like checking them out?
Anyone have an advice. I think Yosemite is pretty half baked. I'm a computer consultant and this is the worst release for customers since Leopard.
Process:               Mail [2457]
Path:                  /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail
Identifier:            com.apple.mail
Version:               8.0 (1990.1)
Build Info:            Mail-1990001000000000~3
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           Mail [2457]
User ID:               501
Date/Time:             2014-11-04 12:10:03.027 -0500
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.10 (14A389)
Report Version:        11
Anonymous UUID:        0FA7D971-C2E1-8717-A217-358425D52214
Time Awake Since Boot: 63000 seconds
Crashed Thread:        8 Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-qos
------(truncated crash log to VM ----
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Post the first 50 lines of the Mail crash report and the lines for the crashed thread.
As a test launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and create a new, test library. Import some photos and test to see if the same problem persists. Does it?
Note: Since it's Mail that's crashing it's not an iPhoto problem but a Mail/System one.
Log into another user account on your Mac and test to see if the problem persists there. If it does then it's a system wide issue. If not it's an account issue.
Download and run Etrecheck. Copy and paste the results into your reply. It's a diagnostic tool that was developed by one of the most respected users here in the ASC to help identify some of the more obvious culprits.

Problems with Apple Mail attachments not showing in Outlook

I am experiencing problems when using the new Apple Mail 5.0 (with OSX Lion) to send PDF attachments. The recipient using MS Outlook on a PC will see the email, see the attachment icon (paper clip) but they cannot click to open the attachment.
It's like the attachment was stripped off the email.
Any suggestions on how to fix this issue?

I also have this problem, it seems to be something to do with this: http://support.apple.com/kb/TA22343 but I cannot find the "View in Place" or "View as Icon" options. Anyone had any luck?
This however, maybe the cause (with no real solution but to switch to plain text format): http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesoftwareupdate/thread/7 98ae640-9091-44c9-b663-63152eb2f0fe/

Outlook users' problems with Apple mail attachments

Folks on Windows XP using Outlook 2003 are having problems with email from Apple mail. Apple mail is using Windows Friendly Attachments and Rich Text as the settings. Sometimes attachments (Word, Excel, PDF) come in fine with an additional .htm attachment, but the body text of the message is missing. If the Outlook user opens the .htm file, there is the body of the Apple mail. Testing with Plain Text results in the body text appearing fine in Outlook, but the attachment is seen as a *.dat file and of course can't be opened. The Macs are all on OS X Tiger with all OS updates applied. Users of Outlook in other offices don't have this problem, and users of Thunderbird on Windows don't have this problem. Any ideas on what is causing this and how to resolve it? Is there a setting on Outlook that needs to be tweaked? Is there a setting on Apple mail that needs to be tweaked? Apple mail attachments to this Windows office worked fine until a few weeks ago. I do not know what changed between then and now as I am not in charge of the computers at the Windows office. Could a Mac OS update have caused a problem? Something on Windows or Outlook specifically? Thanks for any help you can provide. I've scoured the web and have tried everything to no avail. Zipping attachments, while a workaround, is not a long-term solution. Thanks!

Is this in an environment where an MS Exchange Server is being used? Seeing a file change to .dat would often point to that.
Plain Text should be the plan of action for users of Apple Mail, but something (probably the Exchange Server) is messing that up. See:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/138053
and also related:
http://www.pchell.com/support/winmaildat.shtml
Moving to Leopard would probably not solve this -- the administrator of the exchange server must act.
Also the problem with winmail.dat files is known to impact other email clients used even on Windows computers.
Ernie
Message was edited by: Ernie Stamper

Attachments in Apple Mail scrambled

When I try to look at attachments (PDFs and Word docs) in Apple Mail they sometimes (but not always) get converted into scrambled text that is embedded at the bottom of the email. Like this....
----NEXT_BM_AB726E6E67FB42CBAC2285AF00AF803D
Content-Type: application/pdf; name="=?iso-8859-1?Q?Travel_Itinerary_-_,1094144.pdf?="
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Description: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Travel_Itinerary_-_,1094144.pdf?Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="=?iso-8859-1?Q?_Travel_Itinerary_-,1094144.pdf?="
Content-ID: <B00E5BC3912B47F89037FC84414DADBD>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If I look on webmail the attachment is there as a PDF and can be opened and read OK, but on Apple Mail its all messed up.
What can I do to stop this happening?

HI that is the way many attachments would look in Raw Source...
Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="image001.jpg"
Content-Description: image001.jpg
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="image001.jpg"; size=1823;
creation-date="Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:02:12 GMT";
modification-date="Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:02:12 GMT"
Content-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEAYABgAAD/2wBDAAgGBgcGBQgHBwcJCQgKDBQNDAsLDBkSEw8UHRofHh0a
HBwgJC4nICIsIxwcKDcpLDAxNDQ0Hyc5PTgyPC4zNDL/2wBDAQkJCQwLDBgNDRgyIRwhMjIyMjIy
MjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjL/wAARCAApAEoDASIA
AhEBAxEB/8QAHwAAAQUBAQEBAQEAAAAAAAAAAAECAwQFBgcICQoL/8QAtRAAAgEDAwIEAwUFBAQA
AAF9AQIDAAQRBRIhMUEGE1FhByJxFDKBkaEII0KxwRVS0fAkM2JyggkKFhcYGRolJicoKSo0NTY3
Only thing that looks strange there is the last part of this...
application/pdf; name="=?

Apple Mail in 10.6.8 not displaying attachments

I am unable to get consistent results on displaying attachments from Apple Mail on 10.6.8 with Exchange Server 2007 SP3 RU4. Attachments sent from an Outlook 2007 client on the same exchange server are not displayed in Apple Mail. The message shows no sign of an attachment. The problem with this issue, is it is not consistant. If I forward the e-mail message from my iPhone to myself, I get the attachment in Mail. It shows up in my iPhone correctly. I am connected to Exchange in Mail via the standard EWS (Exchange Web Services). The original message doesn't show any attachment in Mail. But after 20 or so minutes, the attachement show in the message body, but not in the header up top. Just driving me crazy. Is there anyone that can point me in a direction on who to contact on this issue to find out how it can be fixed?
Thanks,
Nate

I'm having the same problem and it is driving me crazy. My main email account at work is on an Exchange 2007 server. When I send emails with attachments (using Mail 4.5), I get people replying telling me that I haven't included the attachments. However, I know I have as the attachments appear in the Sent Items and I have also tested it by sending blind copies to a Gmail account and they turn up there even when the recipient is telling me that they cannot see the attachment. Even worse, people send me emails with attachments and the attachments either just do not appear at all or they appear intermittently. Whatever the problem, this really isn't good enough - how can I work with such unreliability. If anyone has any suggestions or ideas for how to fix or work around this I'd be very grateful!

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.

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