Can not attach file to g-mail

Latley I am not able to attach files in my G-mail. There are small Word files. Everytime I try it, finder freezes. My 8 year old Thinkpad is faster than my Macbook Air!

You are mostly misinterpreting the problem (and 'view as icon' will only mask the 'solution').
You see, what you are experiencing is a facet of your email application.
What other users see will be a facet of their email application.
To explain, if you're using Mail.app you should be aware that Mail.app can interpret and display a wide variety of file formats - images, PDF, video, etc., etc.
When you 'attach' such a file to a message Mail.app, by default, displays the content since this is what most people want. You have the option to just display an icon, but that's only really relevant for you.
When the recipient gets the message what they see depends upon their client. If their client can interpret and render file attachments then they'll see the image. If it can't, they'll see an attachment link.
Moreover, you have no control over this. It is entirely dependent on the mail client you are using, and the mail client the recipient is using. Even if you attach a file and 'view as icon', that has no bearing on whether it will appear as an icon or an inline document when it gets to the recipient - that's up to their browser abilities/settings (just like attaching as an image won't display as an image on the recipient's system if they can't display the file format, or their preferences are set to not do so).
So knock yourself out viewing your attachments as icons, but don't expect that it will make any difference to the recipient.
The only way you can overcome this is to send attachments in a file format that can't normally be displayed, such as a .zip archive.

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Can not attach files to certain mail accounts in mail

I have three e-mail accounts (pop3) which I use Mail to get and send mail. But it seems I can only attach files to one account and not the other two accounts. the only workaround I found is to start attaching the files to the account which can take attachments and before I sent switch to the other account. Surprisingly the Attachment stays.
any idea

Hi Caroline,
Are you trying to attach a file to the message without typing anything in the message body? You need to have typed something, even a space, in the message body before attachments will attach.
Not sure exactly when, but this has been a 'feature' of Mail for a while now, and one that I personally dislike.

Can not attach files

I can not attach files in my emails. I have to use web mail which I do not like.
I select attachment in mac mail and nothing happens.
This is really a pain.
Help
Thanks

Not sure why this problem exist but reinstalling just Macmail will most likely not solve the problem.
If "Cocobop" deleted the "com.apple.mail.plist"? This is kinda the same as a reinstall. Mac applications do not normally just go bad. The answer may be in a reinstall of OSX or an "Archive and Install" of OSX.
But to those reading this post try deleting the "com.apple.mail.plist" first.
And yes the answer to your question... You can reinstall only the Macmail app.

Can not attach files in an e-mail

If I use internet explorer 7 I can attach e-mail. But using Firefox 3.6.23 I can not.

Try to clear cache and cookies by doing the following:
#Go to Firefox > History > Clear recent history or (if no Firefox button is shown) go to Tools > Clear recent history.
#Under "Time range to clear", select "Everything".
#Now, click the arrow next to Details to toggle the Details list active.
#From the details list, check ''Cache'' and ''Cookies'' and uncheck everything else.
#Now click the ''Clear now'' button.
Further information can be found in the [[Clear your cache, history and other personal information in Firefox]] article.
Did this fix your problems? Please report back to us!

In Firefox, can't attach files to Yahoo Mail outgoing messages. Yahoo Mail works fine in Internet Explorer though.

Since yesterday, when I switched from Comcast to AT&T as my broadband internet connection, I have not been able to attach files to my Yahoo mail messages using Mozilla Firefox. I don't have this problem when using Internet Explorer, but my default browser is Firefox by choice. Is this a Yahoo issue or a Firefox issue? Can you help me resolve it?

Not helpful. 'clearing Firefox's cache' is not helpful, since 'cache' doesn't show up in any of the Firefox pulldown menu choices (wasted time looking for that), and the plethora of things 'recent' and 'history' to choose to act on in these menus is also a possible waste of time, not to mention removing useful info for no reason.
I, too, have had this problem 'intermittently' for many months, always involving the 'first' file to attach in a Yahoo! email, and I've always used this workaround OK: click on the filename showing as 'being attached' (while Yahoo's doohickey round spinner denoting 'in progress' whirls and whirls to no effect) and use "Remove File"; THEN, REPEAT 'attach file' task & it then works, if slowly. After that for the same email, attaching add'l files NEVER HAS A PROBLEM.
SO, now today, without any software update yet (I've downloaded Firefox v.11 & will install shortly), at numerous attempts during the day, I CANNOT get the FIRST file to attach in a Yahoo! email. Simply, utterly, frustrating without any rhyme or reason. "Everything else, on plethora of sites, working fine."
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Can not attach files to email, can't reply to or forward selected emails.

I've seen others post this problem, but have not been able to find the solution. What has happened is I suddenly cannot attach any files... pdfs, jpgs, docs or anything to my emails. Also, when I hit the reply or forward button on some emails that I have received, nothing happens. On a few, a reply or forward window does open, but there is no rhyme or reason to why some work and some don't. At any rate, I can't attach any files to any of my mail.... new ones, ones I'm trying to reply to or anything. I've seen that others have had this problems occur, but I have not found a solution based on any of the replies. Oh! The other thing is that its only happening on one of my computers. I have an older G4 that has the same mail setup and everything works fine. Its only on my G5 that this happens. I've tried tossing some preferences as suggested from some of the other posts, but still the same. Help me!

How crazy would it be...
OOPs, you don't want to ask me... I always resort to crazy things when nothing else works!
Quit Mail. First I'd backup your whole Mail folder. Right click on it, choose Archive. Move the Mail.zip to a safe place. Only the plist will be separate.
Try dragging this file to the Desktop, (in case we need to put it back), first, then logout/in, reconfigure your account required on this one...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
If that doesn't work, now that you're all backed up & can get back where you are now... give it a rtry!

Send to - Mail recipient does not attach files on new mail

I'm browsing a network share containing some .txt files.
I have full access to this share (in fact I'm the Owner of these .txt files).
If right-click one of these and select "Send to - Mail recipient" Outlook open a new-message window but the .txt file is not attached.
I think that the problem occours only with files over network share because if files are on my local unit i don't have problems.
How can I fix?
O.S. Windows 7 Pro 64-bit - Office 2010 Standard
Thanks.

Send to - Mail recipient function is deponds on the simple MAPI:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd296734(v=vs.85).aspx
Please run "fixmapi" in the Windows Search bar and press Enter and then check if the issue still persists. Thanks.
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Since Lion I can't attach file contents to mail in Mail.

Whe I go to attach something to an email in Mail, i click on the folder that holds the document I want to attach, and it attaches the whole folder.
It used to go into the contents and allow me to select from there. If it were a sub folder it would open it as well.
Anyone know what the issue is?

I just tried using Adobe reader and was successfully able to email to PDF file to myself from the reader. Everything worked fine.
Try a Restart.
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until the red "slide to power off" slider appears, and then slide the slider. Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.
Resetting your settings
You can also try resetting all settings. Settings>General>Reset>Reset All Settings. You will have to enter all of your device settings again.... All of the settings in the settings app will have to be re-entered. You won't lose any data, but it takes time to enter all of the settings again.
Resetting your device
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button together for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears. Apple recommends this only if you are unable to restart it.
Or if this doesn't work and nobody else on the blog doesn't have a better idea you can contact Apple.
Here is a link to their contacts with most of the information below.
http://www.apple.com/contact/

Can't attach files in any email AOL, yahoo, or company. Also only shows blank page when accessing yahoo email.

In any web mail program AOL, Yahoo, my companies you can not attach files when composing an email. By the attach button/icon it says "no file selected" (or when you hover over it). This happens in safe mode also. Also browser speed is very slow. After logging in to my yahoo mail I get a blank page. In the title bar it says I have x amount of emails.
I reinstalled Firefox and for about 60 seconds it was fast and yahoo opened fine and I was able to attach emails in yahoo and my company account. After that it reverted back to being slow and not attaching and opening yahoo to a blank page.
I have run spybot and malware and removed all found threats. I believe something is infecting Firefox. IE and Chrome do not have this problem. Any help would be appreciated as I am at a loss.

antivirus was not a problem since there was not one installed. Firewall settings are fine. I did just finally resolve this issue. Spyhunter was able to detect a couple of hijackers that the other programs did not and this fixed the problem. As I stated in the original post I did suspect this was the issue. The lesson learned is to run multiple malware programs until you find one that eliminates the problem if you suspect malware as the problem.

Attaching File While Sending Mail

Dear All,
            I want to send mail through sap for that i have used function module 'SO_NEW_DOCUMENT_SEND_API1'. Can anybode tell me how can i attach file in this mail.
Regards,
Mayank

hi check this..
REPORT ZMAIL.
TABLES: ekko.
PARAMETERS: p_email   TYPE somlreci1-receiver .(give email here)
TYPES: BEGIN OF t_ekpo,
ebeln TYPE ekpo-ebeln,
ebelp TYPE ekpo-ebelp,
aedat TYPE ekpo-aedat,
matnr TYPE ekpo-matnr,
END OF t_ekpo.
DATA: it_ekpo TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF t_ekpo INITIAL SIZE 0,
      wa_ekpo TYPE t_ekpo.
TYPES: BEGIN OF t_charekpo,
ebeln(10) TYPE c,
ebelp(5) TYPE c,
aedat(8) TYPE c,
matnr(18) TYPE c,
END OF t_charekpo.
DATA: wa_charekpo TYPE t_charekpo.
DATA:   it_message TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF solisti1 INITIAL SIZE 0
                WITH HEADER LINE.
DATA:   it_attach TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF solisti1 INITIAL SIZE 0
                WITH HEADER LINE.
DATA:   t_packing_list LIKE sopcklsti1 OCCURS 0 WITH HEADER LINE,
        t_contents LIKE solisti1 OCCURS 0 WITH HEADER LINE,
        t_receivers LIKE somlreci1 OCCURS 0 WITH HEADER LINE,
        t_attachment LIKE solisti1 OCCURS 0 WITH HEADER LINE,
        t_object_header LIKE solisti1 OCCURS 0 WITH HEADER LINE,
        w_cnt TYPE i,
        w_sent_all(1) TYPE c,
        w_doc_data LIKE sodocchgi1,
        gd_error    TYPE sy-subrc,
        gd_reciever TYPE sy-subrc.
*START_OF_SELECTION
START-OF-SELECTION.
Retrieve sample data from table ekpo
PERFORM data_retrieval.
Populate table with detaisl to be entered into .xls file
PERFORM build_xls_data_table.
*END-OF-SELECTION
END-OF-SELECTION.
Populate message body text
perform populate_email_message_body.
Send file by email as .xls speadsheet
PERFORM send_file_as_email_attachment
                               tables it_message
                                      it_attach
                                using p_email
                                      'Example .xls documnet attachment'
                                      'XLS'
                                      'filename'
                             changing gd_error
                                      gd_reciever.
Instructs mail send program for SAPCONNECT to send email(rsconn01)
PERFORM initiate_mail_execute_program.
*&      Form DATA_RETRIEVAL
      Retrieve data form EKPO table and populate itab it_ekko
FORM data_retrieval.
SELECT ebeln ebelp aedat matnr
   UP TO 10 ROWS
    FROM ekpo
    INTO TABLE it_ekpo.
ENDFORM.                    " DATA_RETRIEVAL
*&      Form BUILD_XLS_DATA_TABLE
      Build data table for .xls document
FORM build_xls_data_table.
data: ld_store(50) type c. "Leading zeros
CONSTANTS: con_cret(5) TYPE c VALUE '0D', "OK for non Unicode
             con_tab(5) TYPE c VALUE '09'.   "OK for non Unicode
*If you have Unicode check active in program attributes thnen you will
*need to declare constants as follows
*class cl_abap_char_utilities definition load.
*constants:
   con_tab type c value cl_abap_char_utilities=>HORIZONTAL_TAB,
   con_cret type c value cl_abap_char_utilities=>CR_LF.
CONCATENATE 'EBELN' 'EBELP' 'AEDAT' 'MATNR' INTO it_attach SEPARATED BY con_tab.
CONCATENATE con_cret it_attach INTO it_attach.
APPEND it_attach.
LOOP AT it_ekpo INTO wa_charekpo.
*Modification to retain leading zeros
inserts code for excell REPLACE command into ld_store
=REPLACE("00100",1,5,"00100")
    concatenate '=REPLACE("' wa_charekpo-ebelp '",1,5,"'
                             wa_charekpo-ebelp '")' into ld_store .
concatenate ld_store into .xls file instead of actual value(ebelp)
    CONCATENATE wa_charekpo-ebeln ld_store wa_charekpo-aedat wa_charekpo-matnr INTO it_attach SEPARATED BY con_tab.
    CONCATENATE con_cret it_attach INTO it_attach.
    APPEND it_attach.
ENDLOOP.
ENDFORM.                    " BUILD_XLS_DATA_TABLE
*&      Form SEND_FILE_AS_EMAIL_ATTACHMENT
      Send email
FORM send_file_as_email_attachment tables pit_message
                                          pit_attach
                                    using p_email
                                          p_mtitle
                                          p_format
                                          p_filename
                                          p_attdescription
                                          p_sender_address
                                          p_sender_addres_type
                                 changing p_error
                                          p_reciever.
DATA: ld_error    TYPE sy-subrc,
        ld_reciever TYPE sy-subrc,
        ld_mtitle LIKE sodocchgi1-obj_descr,
        ld_email LIKE somlreci1-receiver,
        ld_format TYPE so_obj_tp ,
        ld_attdescription TYPE so_obj_nam ,
        ld_attfilename TYPE so_obj_des ,
        ld_sender_address LIKE soextreci1-receiver,
        ld_sender_address_type LIKE soextreci1-adr_typ,
        ld_receiver LIKE sy-subrc.
ld_email   = p_email.
ld_mtitle = p_mtitle.
ld_format              = p_format.
ld_attdescription      = p_attdescription.
ld_attfilename         = p_filename.
ld_sender_address      = p_sender_address.
ld_sender_address_type = p_sender_addres_type.
Fill the document data.
w_doc_data-doc_size = 1.
Populate the subject/generic message attributes
w_doc_data-obj_langu = sy-langu.
w_doc_data-obj_name = 'SAPRPT'.
w_doc_data-obj_descr = ld_mtitle .
w_doc_data-sensitivty = 'F'.
Fill the document data and get size of attachment
CLEAR w_doc_data.
READ TABLE it_attach INDEX w_cnt.
w_doc_data-doc_size =
     ( w_cnt - 1 ) * 255 + STRLEN( it_attach ).
w_doc_data-obj_langu = sy-langu.
w_doc_data-obj_name   = 'SAPRPT'.
w_doc_data-obj_descr = ld_mtitle.
w_doc_data-sensitivty = 'F'.
CLEAR t_attachment.
REFRESH t_attachment.
t_attachment[] = pit_attach[].
Describe the body of the message
CLEAR t_packing_list.
REFRESH t_packing_list.
t_packing_list-transf_bin = space.
t_packing_list-head_start = 1.
t_packing_list-head_num = 0.
t_packing_list-body_start = 1.
DESCRIBE TABLE it_message LINES t_packing_list-body_num.
t_packing_list-doc_type = 'RAW'.
APPEND t_packing_list.
Create attachment notification
t_packing_list-transf_bin = 'X'.
t_packing_list-head_start = 1.
t_packing_list-head_num   = 1.
t_packing_list-body_start = 1.
DESCRIBE TABLE t_attachment LINES t_packing_list-body_num.
t_packing_list-doc_type   = ld_format.
t_packing_list-obj_descr = ld_attdescription.
t_packing_list-obj_name   = ld_attfilename.
t_packing_list-doc_size   = t_packing_list-body_num * 255.
APPEND t_packing_list.
Add the recipients email address
CLEAR t_receivers.
REFRESH t_receivers.
t_receivers-receiver = ld_email.
t_receivers-rec_type = 'U'.
t_receivers-com_type = 'INT'.
t_receivers-notif_del = 'X'.
t_receivers-notif_ndel = 'X'.
APPEND t_receivers.
CALL FUNCTION 'SO_DOCUMENT_SEND_API1'
       EXPORTING
            document_data              = w_doc_data
            put_in_outbox              = 'X'
            sender_address             = ld_sender_address
            sender_address_type        = ld_sender_address_type
            commit_work                = 'X'
       IMPORTING
            sent_to_all                = w_sent_all
       TABLES
            packing_list               = t_packing_list
            contents_bin               = t_attachment
            contents_txt               = it_message
            receivers                  = t_receivers
       EXCEPTIONS
            too_many_receivers         = 1
            document_not_sent          = 2
            document_type_not_exist    = 3
            operation_no_authorization = 4
            parameter_error            = 5
            x_error                    = 6
            enqueue_error              = 7
            OTHERS                     = 8.
Populate zerror return code
ld_error = sy-subrc.
Populate zreceiver return code
LOOP AT t_receivers.
    ld_receiver = t_receivers-retrn_code.
ENDLOOP.
ENDFORM.
*&      Form INITIATE_MAIL_EXECUTE_PROGRAM
      Instructs mail send program for SAPCONNECT to send email.
FORM initiate_mail_execute_program.
WAIT UP TO 2 SECONDS.
SUBMIT rsconn01 WITH mode = 'INT'
                WITH output = 'X'
                AND RETURN.
ENDFORM.                    " INITIATE_MAIL_EXECUTE_PROGRAM
*&      Form POPULATE_EMAIL_MESSAGE_BODY
       Populate message body text
form populate_email_message_body.
REFRESH it_message.
it_message = 'Please find attached a list test ekpo records'.
APPEND it_message.
endform.                    " POPULATE_EMAIL_MESSAGE_BODY
regards,
venkat

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Ernie
thanks for the reply Here are the answers to your questions.
yes each account has it's own drafts folder. and I can save the file into the drafts folder after follow the steps you outlined in your answer. I did repair permission but nothing has changed .
one thing i discovered is that I can attach files to the mail if i reply to it. only when i create a new mail in one of those accounts can i not attach any files.
Seeing on the side bar that you are a top user I have another question you might be able to answer
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Hello
i seem to have problems with attachments. I have 5 e-mail accounts with mail. on 4 of them i can not put attachments. I have to first use the one account which i can add attachment and then change over to the other account
any idea

Ernie
thanks for the reply Here are the answers to your questions.
yes each account has it's own drafts folder. and I can save the file into the drafts folder after follow the steps you outlined in your answer. I did repair permission but nothing has changed .
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E. Van Meter wrote:
Recently installed OX X 10.5 Leopard and ever since, I can't attach files to outgoing Gmail emails.
I've tried in Safari, Camino and Firefox -- no luck.
It does work if I switch to the "older version" of Gmail.
Does anybody know if there's a setting I can change so I can use Gmail normally but be able to add attachments to mail?
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Update to 10.5.8 using the combo update (not the auto software update) and see if that fixes your problem.

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I can't attach files to my e-mails instead of embedding them in the body of the e-mail. Any ideas?

Mail sends certain kinds of graphical attachments as inline content. The decision to do that was made for you by Apple. There's no built-in way to override it, as far as I know.
The recipient's mail client may or may not take Mail's suggestion to display the content inline.
You have these options:
Zip the files before attaching them to the message.
Use something like Attachment Tamer. (That's not an endorsement — it may cause problems.)
Use another mail client that allows for more control over the format of outgoing messages.

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