Mac Mail Resizing Attachments???

I have been sending out attachments using Mac Mail for a long time but recently I have needed to send out Hi-Res photos for print. When the email is received the files have been shrunk and are too small to use. I have gone through every preference I know of and cannot find a way to turn this off. Any help is appreciated.

And only when it says Actual Size will the file be right. If it's set on small, medium or large files size will be reduced and will be turned into jpegs, no matter what the original version was.
So open up an email and attach a file and look at what it says. If it says anything but Actual size the file is already altered. So change it to actual size and save as draft, which you can then delete.
Then next time you attach an image it should say Actual Size because it defaults to whatever was last used. If it still changes then the file is probably too big, most emails have size limits and it's different for every service, so you have to check not only your own but the receiver of the email because if it's past their limit they will never get it.

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In testing, I tried to send an un-edited image. In this case Mail works as it should, resizing the attached image reasonably, with four size options. My edited images seem to cause the problem. I edit in Photoshop (CS3) and always have. I can't remember another time when this has not worked as it should. I am wondering if this is a problem created by a recent update.
Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
Any insight, or fix, would be greatly appreciated.

And only when it says Actual Size will the file be right. If it's set on small, medium or large files size will be reduced and will be turned into jpegs, no matter what the original version was.
So open up an email and attach a file and look at what it says. If it says anything but Actual size the file is already altered. So change it to actual size and save as draft, which you can then delete.
Then next time you attach an image it should say Actual Size because it defaults to whatever was last used. If it still changes then the file is probably too big, most emails have size limits and it's different for every service, so you have to check not only your own but the receiver of the email because if it's past their limit they will never get it.

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I recently got a new imac with 10.8.3, and in mac mail When I try to save attachments to folders nothing shows up in them. What gives?

Hmm. now it seems to be working. Go figure…

Mac Mail jpeg attachments pc distorted

I send jpeg photos as part of my business. My PC clients receive the photos squished and distorted. I have tried:
- Plain Text email
- inserting into email instead of attaching
- using "Actual Size" on size indicator
- "Send PC friendly files" or whatever that check box says
My clients are not savvy enough to deal with zipped or compressed files.
Any answers out there?
Thank you

I have the same problem!!! Anyone have suggestions?

I'm using OS 10.6.8 and Mail 4.5. When I receive mails with attachments which are visible the save button doesn't work. Some contacts have problems opening files sent by me using Mail too. This was never a problem on pre-Intel. A real Mac **** up !

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Can you drag and drop the attachments visible in the email to the Desktop OK or does that fail ?
Re the sending: Are these recipients on Mac's or PC's as the file type could be an issue, if on Mac's then try setting the Mail Preferences Composing setting to Plain Text not Rich Text and see if that improves things.

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Since this problem only happening with certain e-mails, I thought it’s probably something wrong with the attachment. So, I forward that same e-mail back to me (including the attachment and everything), I can delete that attachment by pressing those two buttons. So, I am guess there is nothing wrong with the file that has been attached.

I'm not on 10.6 at the moment to see what might be the problem, did it wok in this version before, or was it an earlier OSX version?

TS3276 Having trouble sending jpeg images as attachments in Mac email.....they go thru as images and PC users can't see the SAVE or QUICK LOOK boxes that Mac mail has. One friend scrolled over the image, right clicked on it and saved as a PNG file.

Having trouble sending jpeg images as attachments in Mac email.....they go thru as images and PC users can't see the SAVE or QUICK LOOK boxes that Mac mail has. One friend scrolled over the image, right clicked on it and saved as a PNG file.

Apple Mail isn't going to change the format of any of your attachments. it isn't going to corrupt them either.
Exchange is a transport protocol and server. The issue you describe is not related to Exchange.
There are many different versions of Microsoft Outlook in use and they all have e-mail bugs. Different versions have different bugs. Some Apple Mail hack to get around a bug in Outlook 2003 may cause the same message to be problematic in Outlook 2000. Fix them both and another issue will cause trouble in Outlook 2007. You can't fix this. Apple can't fix this. Microsoft can and has but that is irrelevant if your recipients are using older versions.
One specific problem is that Apple Mail always sends image attachments inline, as images, not as iconized files. You can change this with Attachment Tamer. Just be aware that use of this software will break other things such as Stationery. E-mail is just a disaster. To date, no one outside of Apple has ever implemented the e-mail standards from 1993. Apple has continually changed its e-mail software to be more compatible with the de-facto standards that Netscape and Microsoft have unilaterally defined and people documented as "standards" after the fact. The e-mail messages that Apple Mail sends are 100% correct and do not violate any of the original standards from 1993 or the Microsoft/Netscape modifications. The problem is entirely bugs and limitations in various versions of Outlook.

I can't resize the reply window in Mac Mail

My mail is working fine.
If I write a new email it all looks okay.
If I reply or forward an email the window is so wide it would stretch maybe 3 times the width of my screen, so if I want to use any of the tools in the top right toolbar I have to drag the window across.
I can resize up and down to make the window taller or shorter but I can't make it fit onto my screen widthways.
I have rebooted, hit zoom and now I'm stumped.
Any suggestions?
Thanks

Such a simple fix and I spent over an hour on this:
http://www.adobepress.com/articles/article.asp?p=1930509&seqNum=3
This is the part that helped me in case anyone goes nuts trying to figure this out. (#2 solved my problem):
Working with the application window on Mac OS
In Normal screen mode on Mac OS, resize the application window by dragging its lower right corner.
Click the green Zoom button (), located beside the Close and Minimize buttons at the left of the title bar. The application window expands to fill the screen. Click the Zoom button again to return to the previous window size.
Reposition the application window on your screen by dragging the title bar.

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Hey Guys,
The title says it all. Whenever I receive an email with attachments, I will try to forward the email to someone with the attachments. Mac Mail shows that the attachments are attached, but the receiver says the attachments are not there. Our mail host is Rackspace. We are setup with IMAP. It should be noted that we are experiencing similar issues with OS 10.5.8 with Mac Mail 3.6 (936).
We assumed Rackspace was the problem, so we logged into their webmail portal and tested it and the attachments were received as normal, which points everything back to Mac Mail. We even had an ISP change but the problem do not change.
I have researched the problem, and there seems to be evidence of this being a known bug with Mac Mail, but I am hoping there is a workaround. The company is unwilling to move to a different mail client since they use Daylite 4, which does not support Thunderbird.

Back up all data.
1. Triple-click the line below to select it:
~/Library/Mail/Bundles
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Open
from the contextual menu. A folder may open, or you may get an error message that the item can't be found. Either result is normal. If the folder does open and has contents, move the contents to the Desktop. Relaunch Mail and test. If there's no change, put the contents of the folder back and quit Mail again.
2. Repeat with this line:
/Library/Mail/Bundles
This time you may be prompted for your login password when you remove the items. Make sure they're removed from the folder and not just copied to the Desktop. If necessary, copy them first and then move the originals to the Trash.

Mac Mail - Being able to set attachments as Icons by default.

Hello All,
Garoolgan again with yet another little problem with the Mac Software.
I've rung Mac support and been told that this is impossible to do.
I send a lot of attachments with my Mac Mails.
If I click right on the attachment to set it to 'View as an Icon" then "save" the email as a draft and open it again the image or document comes up, not the icon. In the same way the person receiving the email finds a whole "pile" of files at the bottom instead of a neat list of icons.
Thanks for Reading..... and I hope those Mac programmers read these messages too!
Best wishes to all
Garoolgan

Icons can be cut and pasted onto almost any item on the Macintosh. As for how to apply them, here is the most straight forward way:
On your desktop, select the icon you would like to use
Select “Get Info” (command-I) from the File Menu for that icon
Click on the icon in the upper left of the window
Choose “Copy” (command-C) from the Edit menu
Close the window
Select the file/folder to which you want to apply that icon
Select “Get Info” (File menu) for that icon
Click on the icon in the upper left of the window
Select “Paste” (command-V) from the Edit Menu
You’re done!
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Hello everybody,
I use IMAP protocol on my Mac and PC and so far i have not had any problems synchronising them. Today I noticed that one particular mail is received by both, my PC (Outlook) and Mac (Mail) but while on PC I can see 14 attached jpg files in Mail there are no attachments at all. Not even something that would suggest that the mail contained attachments, e.g corrupted files or similar. By the way, this hapened on my AIM account.
Many thanks to anybody who could help me in any way.
Alex

but you keep all messages on the server, and it will exchange some info with your computers to keep track of what is downloaded already and what's new. (otherwise you would be downloading all mails each time, wouldn't you).
So my guess is that this is still interfering in a way with the 2nd client.
Try a reverse situation, first download to the Mac, then the PC. Same problem?

Mac mail attachments not searchable in gmail webmail

Attachments sent for my Mountain Lion Mail.app (using my gmail account) are not searchable from the web gmail.com when I use advanced search options like "has:attachment".
However, emails with attachments sent from web gmail.com are searchable. For some reason gmail does not recognized the mac mail sent email attachments as attachments even though the paper clip is there.
For instance. I can search my sent folder, find the email and clearly see the attachment (and paper clip) are there. However if I do a search just as "to:[email protected] has:attachment" it only show emails that originated from web gmail.com
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Incoming
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Gmail IMAP password: Your Gmail password
Gmail IMAP port: 993
Gmail IMAP TLS/SSL required: yes
Outgoing
Gmail SMTP server address: smtp.gmail.com
Gmail SMTP user name: Your full Gmail address (e.g. [email protected])
Gmail SMTP password: Your Gmail password
Gmail SMTP port: 465
Gmail SMTP TLS/SSL required: yes

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Hi,
I am trying to create a standard email that to send to new clients once they sign up. This standard email contains attachments and will need a few customizations (e.g.: Name, ad size, start and end dates, etc).
Is there a way to save a draft email that will not disappear once you send it to someone?
I am aware of saving as stationary, but stationary can't be saved with attachments.
In my previous PC/Outlook world, I would create an email with "_____"s in it to remind me to change these fields for the individual recepient (nothing worse than sending a client information that only pertains to the last client you sent it to). I would then simply open that email and click on the "____"s and fill in the info for the individual I'm sending to.
With Mac Mail and Drafts, I can create a template, but once I send it to someone, it deletes the draft. UGH! So frustrating!
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Mail/Mailbox/New Mailbox - select On My Mac to create the Mailbox. Then drag a copy of the draft there before you send the other one.
See last post.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/10182953#10182953

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My mac mail will not search mail anymore and doesn't load attachments most of the time. When I enter some text in the search box no results come up and I know there are messages that contain the phrase that I've entered.
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The problem of "invisible" attachments sounds all too familiar. I am using Apple's "Mail" program ver. 3.4.
Recently, attachments have not always been showing up when the email's file size and the Paperclip icon indicates an attachment should be present. I have found that when this happens, very often I can view the hidden attachment by either going to the File Menu and choosing "Quick Look Attachments", or by pressing the Command and Y keys simultaneously. On occasion, I have had this abnormality occur from the same sender's email account who has also sent other emails with attachments that have shown up.
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