Mail Attachments are resized or embedded.

Hi,
I'm a graphic artist and I am constantly sending attachments (jpgs, pngs, gifs, pdfs, psds) to clients through Apple Mail. Whenever clients with PCs receive my attachments they are embedded in the message or resized or squished. I am looking for a setting or a way to make it to where mail never resizes or embeds or changes the format of any jpeg, gif, psd, pdf, png or any other type of image file I send. I do know about the button in the bottom left of the new message window where you can select the small, medium, or large, however this button shows up only sometimes, perhaps only why I click the paperclip attach icon and not when I drag and attachment in. I feel like it should be consistent or there should be a way to turn this off, so I can send an attachment just like in any other normal mail client.

This isn't an issue with Mail, it's those people who are using a PeeCee and Outlook, which is set to render all email as HTML, even if it isn't. Apart from having your recipients set Outlook to treat everything as Plain Text, you should create .zip archives of the files you're sending and send those instead.
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