Mac Mail- Disable inline attachment

I use my mac mail 6.2 for business and I cannot seem to figure out how to disable the inline attachments. My attachments such as pdf's show up in the email versus someone clicking and opening them up as an attachment like they would with outlook. It's hard to send bigger files when this occurs.

Two options to consider.
Zip the files (control-click, "Compress...") and attach the .zip files.
Use something like Attachment Tamer

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Hi Robertshill,
If you are having an issue with sending email I would suggest that you troubleshoot using the steps in this article -
OS X Mail: Troubleshooting sending and receiving email messages
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L

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Ever since my upgrade to snow leopard, my mac mail does 2 things. 1, it keeps asking for my name and password, and I have already cleared out my keychain, re input all my information, and it keeps doing that. does it about once a day.
but my more detrimental problem is that my mail will freeze the entire freaking system if I try to attach a file! Used to, I didn't have this issue, and it's only doing it on my imac. I have snow leopard on my macbook and it works just fine when I attach a file. On top of that, it's doing it when I attach a mp3.
I am not sure what to try here. But it doesn't just freeze up mail, but the entire mac. I mean, I can't even do a Command Option Esc to close mail, because it locks up the entire freaking system. I don't know what to try here.

I would start by setting up another user account, set up mail.app with your info on that account and see what happens there. If everything works fine there, I would (in the normal account) export all messages etc in mail.app (and make sure you have backup), delete (or rather rename) all mail prefs etc and set the mail.app up again and then (when everything hopefully works) import all old messages.
Btw, I assume that you have repaired permissions on the disk and that "cleared out the keychain" also included doing a first aid repair for the keychain.

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Hi,
If I am in the Mac Mail composer window and press the paperclip, it gives me a dialog to choose a file, which I do, then the dialog disappears and there is no attachment (have tried sending, no attachment at the other end).
If from Finder, I share a file via email, it starts an email, shows the file as an icon BUT the file is zero bytes ??
Similarly, if I drag a file from finder to an email composer window, it appears as an icon but is zero bytes.
It does not seem to matter what type of file (I've tried many -> zips, txt, .docs etc., etc.).
I have only had this computer for a month so am not sure if this has ever worked (my wife tried telling me it wouldn't attach files but I assumed she was doing something wrong).
It also doesn't matter which user I use and I have tried fixing the file permissions with the disk utility.
Any other ideas ??

Take a look at this link, https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4566924?start=0&tstart=0

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Ya know, Apple, if you were to make this setting a menu or preference setting, it might be found a little easier by the user.

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http://micahgilman.com/play/disable-mac-mailapp-inline-image-attachments/
Force Apple mail.app to display attachments as icon
http://www.sant-media.co.uk/2010/11/apple-mail-inline-attachments/
Mail.app attachment as icon
http://creativebits.org/mac_os_x/mail_app_attachment_as_icon/

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Two things to try:
(1) Verify with your provider whether they use SSL or not and verify the port number on their server to which you should be connecting. POP without SSL is typically port 110. POP with SSL is typically port 995. Or, just try it both ways. Doublecheck the POP (incoming) mail server name, too. Is it the same "mail.wavecable.com" as is used for the SMTP servername?
(2) Try quitting Mail, then launching Keychain Access (located in the Applications/Utilities folder). Select login keychains. Find any entries that pertain to your POP account login and delete them (doubleclicking on an entry brings up more identifying information about to what it pertains/belongs). To delete them, just use the delete key or menubar>edit>delete. Quit Keychain Access. Start Mail. You will get prompt for your POP password. Enter it and be sure to check the "save to keychain" checkbox. Presuming that you are let in, quit Mail. Relaunch Mail. You should login automagically without having to enter.

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I recently changed my business E-mail client to Mac Mail 3.8 from Eudora. I was very surprised that Mac Mail could not attach a graphic file to an E-mail without actually embedding the file into the E-mail. Mac to Mac my clients could access the file as an attachment, but Mac to PC they could not. I was very surprised to find that the only solution Apple support showed was to compress the graphic file as a zip archive file. This solution is unacceptable as Google Mail disallowed zip files as attachments, and more than a handful of my clients use G-Mail. I found a third party plug-in solution offered by Loki software called Mail Attachments Iconizer http://lokiware.info/Mail-Attachments-Iconizer which actually works to change the way Mac Mail handles graphic file attachments, so that PC users can access the attached file. I was amazed that there was no mention of this solution on the apple support thread... Now there is!

Welcome to Apple Community forums.
Have you tried using "Send Windows friendly attachments" at the bottom of the attach dialog?
-mj

How do you disable inline attachments in mail

how do you disable inline attachments in mac mail?

The only way possible to send a non-text file by e-mail is as an attachment. Different e-mail programs will handle JPEG attachments differently. Some will show the attachment within the message and some will not.

Cannot disable automatic attachment preview in Mavericks Mail?

Hello All,
I noticed after upgrading to Mavericks that Apple Mail started automatically previewing attachments again... I had disabled this in previous versions of OS X. I tried to disable this again in the terminal using:
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes
But after re-starting Mail, attachments are being automatically previewed again.
I consider this a security issue so I would like to disable automatic attachment previewing as soon as possible. Has anyone been able to do this with the Mail included with Mavericks yet?

Just a basic examplo: getting an email with an open image, that the 2 people around me can immediately see, can pose a serious security for anything I'm doing with my Mac!
So, you see, SECURITY is much more than a mere technical problem!
Cheers
That's a privacy problem, not a security problem.
If you are receiving images in emails that the others arround you are not qualified to see, your office setup is the security problem, not Mail.
Use a different email client that gives you the option. I have no idea what those are, though.

Disable inline viewing of attachments in Mavericks mail

Dear all
In previous version of the OS, there was an easy terminal fix to disable inline viewing of attachments in mail. Instead of bulky and cumbersome images and PDFs, I used to get nice, neat icons.
This terminal fix doesn't seem to work in Mavericks.
Online sources tell me to buy a separate app called Attachment Tamer to fix this.
Just wanted to find out whether there is a way to do this without additional software.
Thanks in advance
Best regards
Zam

Sorry, that page is a description of the basic functionality that is supposed to work in Mavericks, but is entirely failing to work for me. I tried calling Apple Support on the phone, and went through many attempted fixes with the experts, but they eventually threw up their hands in despair.

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Thank you, Ralph.
Yes, I tried all of that. The best I could find is Mail > Edit > Attachments > and check "Always Insert Attachments at End of Message." Its better than nothing!

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To add to what Kappy said, note that you really can't control how some other mail client might display an attachment. Some may display them inline, while others may require them to be opened separately. And different people have different desires in this area... some want a PDF file, for example, displayed inline, while others prefer for it not to be. Just attach the file(s) and don't worry about this so much.
Also, I do have to disagree with Kappy on one point... I would not say that you "should" compress files and attach the compressed archive file. That will force all mail clients not to display the attachment inline, but not everyone will want that (you'd be forcing your tastes on all recipients of your e-mail), and some people have difficulty figuring out how to open and view the contents of compressed files. It's an extra step for you and an extra step for the recipient, and is not needed for most popular file types. (Of course, we could advise you more specifically if we knew what file types you're dealing with.)

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Open Terminal in Utilties and copy/paste
This will send the attachment embedded inline. (This works in Snow Leopard, but not sure about Lion. Do a test first. If it doesn't work, just google "send attachment embedded + Lion." You don't actually have to send the message to see how it will appear.)
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing 0
To reverse the setting, change the 0 to a 1
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