MAIL doesn't show attachments in SENT mail until you open the eMail!!

Question

I mean EUDORA may have been getting grey, but it still today has features that blow MAIL away!
For example: When you attach a document or photo to an eMail in MAIL - then send it; then go back to your SENT eMail BOX - guess what- there is no icon in the ATTACHMENTS (paperclip icon) column indicating that there is an attachment in that eMail. BUT if you open and then close that eMail - wow- magic - the icon now appears.
COMEONTHIS IS CRAZY - why doesn't the icon appear immediately?
I mean this program has probably been around for 5 years now, maybe more; I only started using it a few months ago and you mean to tell me with a billion MacUsers (don't we wish- say 85 million?) out there- no one has noticed this and complained? It's like when you create a new message and you want to increase the font size with the buttons. THEY DON'T WORK unless you are replying to a message. WEIRD AND BAD - come'on apple get this working!!!!!!!!
And yes I have posted to the apple info site as well as here - I'm just hoping that someone can tell me that if I do something then I can cure these evils...
Best regards,
Steve Schulte
Monday 2 August 2010

Answer 1

Thanks for the comment! Actually I have 2 POP and 1 IMAP account. (IMAP is set to keep copies of messages and attachments for online viewing).
But 90% of the time I send using my VOO POP account. I just did a test. I attached a small photo to an eMail that I sent to my work eM address. It went out and then I opened the SENT Mailbox and although the message appears in the SENT box - the attachment ICON does not.
Here's what I think is happening: I keep one window (viewer window) for SENT messages open all the time; and another for IN - plus often have many messages open. I stagger them so that I just click on the left to bring the INBOX to the front; click to the right to bring the SENT box to the front (or use the WINDOW menubar).
OK so if I CLOSE the SENT viewer window, re-do the test (send a message with an attachment) then OPEN the SENT window - voilà the message AND THE ATTACHED ITEM ICON are there. So a bit strange that the MESSAGE appears in the SENT box when the SENT box viewer window is OPEN; but not the attachment icon - unless you either close and reopen the SENT box; or open the message itself. In anycase there should be some automatic refresh here--
AND HERE's something interesting: If I have a SENT viewer window OPEN, send this POP eMail, see the message (but no attachment icon) in the SENT window, but then OPEN a 2nd viewer window guess what? THE ATTACHMENT ICON IS NOT THERE EITHER.
The only way is to have NO SENT VIEWER WINDOW open, and after sending the eM, to then open it and then the attachment is visible. (OR if a sent viewer window is open, then double-click the message and then close it and then the icon appears). This is really bad - you think you've sent an attachment to someone, you check the SENT Viewer Window, and no, it's not showing - but in reality YOU DID SEND THE ATTACHMENT. Very bad that - and one wonders why...
WORSE: I just did the same test sending via my IMAP (MobileMe) account from MAIL and having the sent viewer window closed and then opening it after sending doesn't work! STILL NO ATTACHMENT ICON - one must open the message just sent -- just awful to have to do that so there must be some other settings to set?!?!
Thanks again for your eMail that prompted me to run these tests - perhaps you can try the same and let me know?
Best regards,
Steve Schulte
Tuesday 3 August 2010