Mail occasionally loses attachments and headers

once in a while, i recieve messages in Mail which lost their headers and part of the attachments. the attachments can no longer be read from Mail, but they're still there in the source. however, the metadata, as can be seen at the end of the corresponding *.emlx file, were correctly extracted (at some point in time)...
i have two imap accounts with which this is happening.
anyone having similar experiences?
i've already tried rebuilding the inbox to no avail.

I set up a Yahoo mail account. I now use my Outlook account to send PDF attachments to myself at the Yahoo account. So far this combination seems to work and the attachments are no longer disappearing. If I send via Outlook to my Outlook account, the problem of disappearing attachments still occurs.

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Apple Mail, Photo Browser, Attachments and Yosemite

OK,
Help.
Anytime I want to insert a photo from my iPhoto Library into Apple Mail via Photo Browser in Yosemite Mail, it crashes.
My preferred method - Via add attachments - Finder/Pictures/Iphoto library doesn't work anymore. It now says Open iPhoto library.
Why does Apple change these things without like checking them out?
Anyone have an advice. I think Yosemite is pretty half baked. I'm a computer consultant and this is the worst release for customers since Leopard.
Process:               Mail [2457]
Path:                  /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail
Identifier:            com.apple.mail
Version:               8.0 (1990.1)
Build Info:            Mail-1990001000000000~3
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           Mail [2457]
User ID:               501
Date/Time:             2014-11-04 12:10:03.027 -0500
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.10 (14A389)
Report Version:        11
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Time Awake Since Boot: 63000 seconds
Crashed Thread:        8 Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-qos
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Post the first 50 lines of the Mail crash report and the lines for the crashed thread.
As a test launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and create a new, test library. Import some photos and test to see if the same problem persists. Does it?
Note: Since it's Mail that's crashing it's not an iPhoto problem but a Mail/System one.
Log into another user account on your Mac and test to see if the problem persists there. If it does then it's a system wide issue. If not it's an account issue.
Download and run Etrecheck. Copy and paste the results into your reply. It's a diagnostic tool that was developed by one of the most respected users here in the ASC to help identify some of the more obvious culprits.

Why can I no longer seemingly have the "option" in Yahoo Mail, to "View" attachments, and not just "download" them in my incoming emails?

When I use IE browser to open my YAHOO EMAIL "classic" or "New" account, and I open an "inbox email", I have the option of "viewing" attachments, or "downloading" attachments.
I used to have that "dual" option, seemingly, using Firefox Browser, which I prefer to use.
Now, when I open my "Classic" or "New" Yahoo Email Account/s, with Firefox Browser, I no longer have the option, seemingly, to "VIEW" the attachments, but only the option to "Download" them, which I prefer not to do.
I have tried this using the older version 3.6 and the new version 9 of Firefox with the same results. No "Dual Attachment Viewing/Downloading" option in Yahoo Mail anymore in either the "Classic" or "New" versions of Yahoo Mail.
Can I correct this or change this back to the older "DUAL" OPTION of "Viewing" and/or "Downloading" attachments...or is this just the way the New FireFox Browser works.?
This is only happening to me with YAHOO.COM Email Accounts.

Thank you! I suppected it would be in the settings somewhere. I' ve much to learn...get myself into trouble pushing buttons I don't really understand.

Mail under Mavericks, Attachments and View Attributes Missing

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hi Eric
thanks for the tip, but I don't think that solves my problem, which is that Mail apparently hides the duplicates, so they're still there, you just can't differentiate or remove them. I actually *need* the duplicates there so I know I've got everything, but then I need to be able to move the ones I know I've dealt with from my inbox to an archive/trash, and/or remove them completely so Mail isn't totally bloated

I receive e-mail attachments " win mail.dat" from iPhones and iPads.All I can find is that Outlook users send these e-mails. I found "letter opener" and it helps but I'd rather receive jpeg in stead from my Apple friends

Last week I suddenly started receiving all e-mails with photo attachments from other iPad and iPhone users (on my iMac, iPhone as well as iPad!) as " winmail.dat" files. It says everywhere that that is caused by Outlook users sending RTF e-mails. Obviousely that is not the case here. I found an app to open the attachments, but of course that is no real solution. I asked Android and MS Outlook users to send me e-mails with JPEG attachments and the arrive aas they should.
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HT1146 missing task bar icon for adding attachments , and it is not in the customize task bar icons, where could it have gone?

I am missing the icon on my taskbar in mail for sending attachments, and it is not in the customize taskbar part of my mail program. Where did it go, or how do I restore it since it is missing??
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Yellowchevy66

"The top of the screen" is called the menu bar. It changes, and is based on whichever application is currently selected.
In Mail.app, the attach icon is the paperclip icon that shows in the default icon set of the so-called compse window; when you have requested the creation of a new mail message, or the creation of a reply. In the compose window with the default icons, the attach button is the middle of the five leftmost buttons in the tool bar.
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I want to forward a message with the default headers included, but can't seem to set my mail preferences to include the headers when forwarding, just the original message ends up in the forwarded message and not the headers?

I want to forward a message with the default headers included, but can’t seem to set my mail preferences to include the headers when forwarding, just the original message ends up in the forwarded message and not the headers? What I'm trying to do is report SPAM and add headers to a spam message to forward to sites that go after the spammers.

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When I receive e-mails w/ attachments in PDF they show up as win.dat attachments and will not open w/ Acrobat

When I receive e-mails in Mail w/ PDF attachments they appear as win.dat attachments and will not open w/ Acobat Reader or Professional.

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Mail attachments and forwarding as attachments

Since upgrading to Yosimite 10.10.1 Mail will not work with attachments saying that it cannot find the downloads folder. If you forward as an attachment the icon is not in mail format or recognised.

Hi Chateaubugs
Open Mail.app, make sure you see the Message Viewer window.
Click on the menu Edit > Attachments and enable
- Always send windows-friendly attachments
- Always insert attachment at the end of the message.
Outlook is not good at showing embedded media content from Mail.app. It likes to have them, where it's expecting them - at the end of a message.
A hint: Make sure you have at least a part of your message (for example your signature) typed before you attach a file to a message. This is because of a small issue when attaching mails at the end of a message: If you have nothing typed, there is no end to attach to. It will fail.
hth
--greg

Quotes and Graphics in Forwarded mail Received as Attachments

When I forward mail, often inline graphics like company logos show up as attachments and are not displayed where they show up on my computer and and often, but not always, several levels of quoted messages show up on the recipients PCs as either text or html file attachments and are also not displayed as quoted text. When the message is forwarded back to me it looks fine on my Macbook Pro. This seems to be a fairly recent problem. It also seems to be kind of hit and miss. At my company everybody complains. I've called up others who were copied the same message and it displayed OK for them. What can I do?
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Ernie

Mail not recognizing ZIP and PDF attachments

Since upgrading to Leopard, I have received a few emails with attachments in my work IMAP account. Some of the emails are fine (the ones with XLS and DOC attachments) and others display the attachment as a bunch of encoded text in the email (ZIP and PDF files).
Thunderbird can read all the emails just fine, so I think that the problem is that some kind of mail setting is screwed up or it is a bug in the Apple mail client.
Does anyone know why Apple mail would not recognize the data as an attachment?
Here is an example of what shows up in my email:
--Apple-Mail-17-830733730
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary=Apple-Mail-18-830733730
--Apple-Mail-18-830733730
Content-Type: text/html;
charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Attached is the latest QuickRef in booklet form, ready to print.
</body></html>
--Apple-Mail-18-830733730
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename=svquickrefv3.5-booklet.zip
Content-Type: application/zip;
x-unix-mode=0755;
x-mac-type=5A495020;
name="svquickrefv3.5-booklet.zip"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
UEsDBBQAAAAIAFieXzct4eWqZKoOABN9DwAcAAAAc3ZfcXVpY2tyZWZfdjMuNS1ib29rbGV0LnBk
ZrybdzyVbeD/FSJlHTPztrI5e0SySdl7b1nZJAopSSSjjFBEZZeZmS2h7BnKLKOMbKrvqR7P7/s8
------------ bunch of encoded text deleted ----------------

We are having a problem were Preview cannot display the text of an attached PDF in an email. Really strange. Shows the formatting of lines and grids graphics etc. But the text is blank.
Acrobat can open and show the file, the text is there.

Whenever I forward mails I get only the subject line as forward All attachments and text is blank

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Then do a reset, no data loss. Hold down the home/sleep button together until you see the apple logo and then release, then wait for the phone to boot back up.
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Yes I have removed and reinstalled WMP.
I had good results with the PD6 application installed on the default path onto the C: drive with the one exception that if the application was launched by accident and the user data path was not available, the PD6 application would blow away my custom user path registry settings. Now that I know what they are I have made a .reg file to repair my registry to my desired user data paths.
Installing the application on the removable drive appeared to help prevent me from launching the application by accident and overwriting my registry with default user paths.
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If the application directory is not available, windows media player still tries to launch the .msi for installing PD6.
If I install the application to the C: drive but the user data to the removable drive, launching the PD6 application without the user data drive will still corrupt my registry settings for a user data path.
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My iMac occasionally loses "sent" mail

My iMac occasionally loses "sent" mail, leaving no trace of what has been sent. The only way I know the message has been sent is to check with the recipient.

Hello:
See my post on your other thread.
Barry

Attachments and history of my emails are not seen by Windows users

attachments and history of my emails are not seen by Windows users

Just guessing at what you mean, try this:
In Mail, while composing a message, go to Mail's menu and click:
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