I want to love Mac Mail.......however.....

Hello All:
I am in quite a pickle with this dilema that I have with Mac Mail. I am the only mac in my building/office and whenever I send a file that is of the image nature, it gets placed 'inline' or into the message body.
When my non-mac colleages get this email, they do not see it as an attachment, how outlook normally does things, but as an inline image.
I have tried the option to 'send windows safe' attachments but that does not seem to do anything other than make the image a little smaller in the message.
Please tell me that there is a add on or something that I can use that will solve my problems with this.
Thanks,
Paul

Greetings,
There is no add-on for this, nor do you need one. If you send an image in your email, Outlook's normal behavior is to render it inline, not as an attachment. If you want them to see an attachment, you have two options: (1) send only plain text emails (not Rich Text or HTML); and/or (2) compress the images into a .zip file and attach that, which will always be seen as an attachment.

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