Mail rule not forwarding attachments

Using Mail rules to forward email to another account, the attachments are not forwarded with the original email message. With a manual forwarding action, the original message is forwarded with the attachments. Thoughts?

I have the same problem in MacOS 10.7.5, and it is a heavy problem, cause in fact Apple prevents us from professional work.May be we should chenge to Microsoft Exchange. I didn't have this problem in former versions, the forwarding WITH attachements worked fine.
The solution with the redirecting is only a emergency workaround, because it doesn't permit a professional handling of messages.
This Bug is strange, because forwarding the same message manually (choosing "forward" from the menu), the problem doesn't exist!!!!
As an "Only Mac User" since 1988 I'm very disappointed about the fact, that Apple doesn't take serious the problems of their users caused by BUGS.

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Apple Mail unable to forward attachments

I called tech support and they said to save an attachment to the desk top - which is fine if it's 1 file and that works. I have one with 8 jpg files that goes with text and all I get are the blue boxes with the
photos missing.
I can't seem to find a work around with Apple Mail so I go to our Gmail account and send it from there.
Any clue when Apple Mail will be improved? Simple tasks it can't seem to perform. With the iMac raved about for its graphics, find it hard to believe that I can't insert my .gif with my name being written by a rose. It's at those moments that I fire up the PC and use IncrediMail.
Thank you.

Thank you for your encouraging post. Since calling Apple Care and the whiz in Apple Mail could only tell me how to forward one attachment, mind sharing how to forward more than one with text?
I'm not forwarding attachments with each e-mail I send - most of our friends share lovely e-mails with animal photos combined with text. One yesterday had 8 photos but when I tried to forward it, I get the blue boxes.
I tried using the forward and then the Message, forward as attachment, but still just the blue box with a question mark in it. If there is something "hidden", it sure isn't in "The Missing Manual" books and neither is tech support aware of it.
Mind sharing? Thank you.
How about changing the color default for outgoing messages? Tried everything and tech support couldn't solve that one either. It's all black; then highlight and then select a color.
Wonderful to 'bump' into someone that knows these answers - sure
appreciate your help.

Hotmail will not forward attachments

Hotmail will not forward attachments from emails sent to myself.

It's a known issue in OS X 10.7 and later that attachments are not included when a message is forwarded automatically by means of a rule. The workaround is to use "Redirect" instead of "Forward" in the rule. It will look to the recipient as though the message came from the original sender, not from you.

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My iPhone does not forward attachments with emails.

Make sure you open the email and fully download the attachments before trying to forward them. Large attachments are often only partially downloaded unless you tap the option to fully download the.

My printer receives and prints my e mail but not the attachments how do I rectify this?

My printer receives and prints my e mail but not the attachments. How do I rectify this?

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Your issue could be related to the file type or a setting with the file. In the help section of ePrintCenter.com, it goes into details on how the HP ePrint service does not support printing webpages via email at this time, HP is currently developing dedicated solutions to support webpage printing from mobile devices. Image files (like jpeg, bmp, tiff, etc) need to be at least 100DPI in order to print via ePrint. PGP encryption, digitally signed documents, macro-enabled spreadsheets and password-protected documents are not supported by ePrint at this time and will not print.
If I have solved your issue, please feel free to provide kudos and make sure you mark this thread as solution provided!
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Mail Rules not applying to Sent folder

I have rules set up to color code my e-mails. They work fine in all my mailboxes (Inbox, Trash, personal folders), but do not work properly when applied to my 'Sent' folder (the messages all turn orange). What's the problem?
I have Gmail being forwarded to the Apple Mail program using IMAP settings.

there is no problem. Mail rules work on incoming mail only. if you want Mail rules to apply to sent messages you need a 3rd party plugin. MailActOn
http://www.indev.ca/MailActOn.html
can do it.

New version of yahoo beta mail will not upload attachments with foxfire browser

I have switched to yahoo email's new beta version. I can not upload attachments while using foxfire browser on my PC but can using windows on my laptop? Yahoo live help could not find solution and felt it was a problem with the browser- foxfire? I just need to find solution to problem. Have any suggestions?

I misunderstood the "of 25MB" part of the image. Maybe that's Yahoo's maximum allowance.
The typical next step is to try to rule out a conflicting add-on. A standard diagnostic to bypass interference by extensions (and some custom settings) is to try Firefox's Safe Mode. More info on Safe Mode: [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues using Safe Mode]].
To start in Safe Mode you can use:
Help > Restart with Add-ons Disabled
In the dialog, click "Start in Safe Mode."
If uploads works correctly, this points to one of your extensions or custom settings as the likely culprit.
If there's no difference, you could also test for a plugin conflict by disabling those here:
orange Firefox button (or Tools menu) > Add-ons > Plugins category
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Rule not forwarding

I set up a rule to forward e-mail from certain individuals that arrives on my personal, Mac account to my business e-mail address.
The rule works fine, but only if you click on the unread message, which sort of defeats the purpose. Why won't the rule apply on the unread message once it arrives?
My account is a MobileMe IMAP account, synchronized across two computers.

I have the same problem in MacOS 10.7.5, and it is a heavy problem, cause in fact Apple prevents us from professional work.May be we should chenge to Microsoft Exchange. I didn't have this problem in former versions, the forwarding WITH attachements worked fine.
The solution with the redirecting is only a emergency workaround, because it doesn't permit a professional handling of messages.
This Bug is strange, because forwarding the same message manually (choosing "forward" from the menu), the problem doesn't exist!!!!
As an "Only Mac User" since 1988 I'm very disappointed about the fact, that Apple doesn't take serious the problems of their users caused by BUGS.

Mail not forwarding attachments

I am using earthlink for my server and when I send email with attachments ( video and Pictures ) to more than one person it sometimes does not send the attachments. I am not sure what is going on here this never happened with my older MackBook Pro.
Any help would be great...

There is nothing in Mail to cause this. More likely this is some type of SPAM guard operating with the SMTP you are using to send with. It is possible with too many recipients, they are blocking these Forwards, but I cannot be sure. Do these messages have true attachments, such as JPEG image files, or might they have embedded images that actually reside on a server, and the message only has a link to them? The latter would also be something the SPAM filters would be watching for.
More info, please, including the provider of the SMTP you are using?
Ernie

Mail Rules and Forwarding

I use Mail on my iMac to receive mail from a number of accounts - POP3. On one account I have a Rule set up which forwards received mail to a web mail account. The account Inbox in Mail shows the incoming message and it can be opened. It then shows an arrow next to the message. Clicking on this does not state that the message has been forwarded. Instead it gives an error message "Mail was unable to find your response ....." Why is this and can it be fixed?

It looks as though I have maybe solved the problem. I just kept forwarding each one to aol_phish abuse, one after the other. It took about an hour a day just to do this. For four days. I was half expecting to be reprimanded by aol. I was not. And this morning I got up and instead of 16 or so, there were three. That was hours ago and no more have appeared.

Mail rules not copied to new MacPro via iCloud

Hi All,
I have a new MacPro that is replacing an older MacPro that was running Mavericks 10.9.5. I also have a Macbook Air running Mavericks 10.9.5.
For a host of reasons, I decided not to simply use Migration Assistant on this new MacPro, but to copy individual plist files for apps such as Mail. The two plists that I was interested in recreating on this new setup were the MessageRules plist and the SmartFolders plist. Interestingly these two kinds of preferences seem to be shared across MacOS devices via iCloud.
However, in both instances (iCloud syncing or manually copying over the old plist file), I cannot get my install of Apple Mail to read the plists. Nor are the shared preferences shared with this computer. Apple tech support was not much help saying their hands are tied because of Apple Engineering. Never heard that one before.
Thanks in advance to whomever can spare me from having to manually recreate a hundred or so rules and 20 or so smart mailboxes.

The messages coming to mail app. on my iMac & macbook pro were not showing up on my 5 devices if the sender had a "move to" a folder command on the 'rules' in Mail 'Preferences'.
After trying every suggestion I could find on this forum in addition to some of my own, I realized the only thing that worked was my changing the "move to" command to "copy to" command. This work around resulted in duplicating all the emails, one in the "inbox" and the "copied" one to it's proper folder ! When I proceeded to delete the emails from the "inbox" as I had set up the "copy to" rule and they were all in their proper folders. I came across another change to the mail system after iOS 8.1 ; if one deletes the emails in the "inbox" on the mac they get deleted across the board from all your devices and vice versa !! I was on telephone with Apple "Senior" techs for 2 frustrating days and eventually they said there is nothing they can do, it had been changed by the "Engineers", something to do with changing "pop" to "imap" protocol. Now I have to put up with all my email being in the inbox with no option to organize them or delete them if I want them to appear on my devices. This is outrageous !!

Forwarding an (ipad) email does not forward attachments correctly

Dear users,
I would like to have your opinion on the following issue.
I often receive an email sent from iPad, which I am not able to forward correctly. Specifically, some attachments are ignored in the compose window. My friend uses Skype to make screenshosts, then selects them and send them to me. I cannot influence the way they are working and I am glad they have gone so far with technologies...
The received message has 2*N attachments, where N is the number of pictures attached. There is also N text attachments, which I am able to open and read -- they are comments to the pictures. When I forward the email, only the text attachments are attached and sent. They cannot be opened on the recipient side and are of lesser value (they are commenting the pictures). All of the attachments are named in the form "ATT00#.txt" "obrazek #.png", where the cross-hash is a sequential number.
One of such emails looks as follows:
When forwarded, the message (the edit window) receives only the text attachements:
The same message on my GMail account looks as follows. Here, the text attachments are inlined into the email.
Does anybody know, how to tell BB10 to re-attach all the attachments form the original email?
Workaround: Currectly, I forward these emails, when I am in on the GMail webpage. In urgent cases, I download the PNG attachments and reattach them manually in the compose window.
Cheers,

Thanks for confirming the issue dear Polocoste. It is not solved up to now. And I have no new information either. Cheers

Upgraded to Lion and now Mail does not show attachments in the Send Box (for new messages only).

After upgrading to Lion and switching Mail to the classic mode, I can no longer see if messages have attachment in my Send Box. However, I can go into the message and see the attachment.
Strangely, all my messages prior to the upgrade show their attachments.
I've looked through the preferences and don't see a swith for this.
Any suggestions. Thanks.
Blair

Walter, thank you for the suggestion.
Perhaps I am not explainging myself very well.
In the Send Box new messages do not show the clip in the Attachments column. The image below is of two messaegs, both of which have an attachment, yet no clip is shown (this is also true of the Draft Box).
In all other boxes, an attachment is shown with a clip (see below).
I need the clips to be shown in all mail boxes.
Thanks.
Cheers, Blair

Gmail not forwarding attachments to BB

All,
I have my work forwarded to my gmail (everythig works) and then from my gmail to my BB. All the emails come through fine however the attachments are stripped/not there. The funnt thing is when I send something directly from work/home/other to gmail the attachment comes through fine. It seems that the forwarded email to gmail strip out the attachments. Any suggestions would be appreciated as I need this remedied as soon as possible.
Thanks in advance

Hi and Welcome to the Forums!
A couple of things to check...
1) At work, can you see your Sent Items? Is the attachment there (on the forwarded sent item)?
2) Can you check your GMail via their web interface? Is the attachment there?
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Mac Mail rules not working

Rules in Mac Mail are working terribly randomly - create a rule to color messages from domain = x, didn't work; then tried a rule to color messages to = one of my 3 email addresses ... that worked on about 80% of the messages to that email address (***? no discernable pattern!) after exiting and re-launching mail ... Finally realizing this thing just doesn't work I deleted all the rules ... several exits/re-launches I now still have about 80% of my messages to one email address I use colored, with no discernable pattern. There are no rules now.
Using OS X 10.7.4 on a 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac Book Pro w/ 4 GB Ram, Mail 5.2. Have 3 email addresses, 1 Mobileme using IMAP and 2 Gmail addresses using IMAP.
Thanks.

If you have no rules, then applying them won't change a thing. Once a messages is colored, you would have to create a rule to change the color again.
However, sometimes moving the message back to the inbox will change the color back, expecially with imap since it really has to download it back to the inbox.
If the rules are corrupted, then maybe try this:
First, quit Mail. Have a current backup in case of trouble.
Select Go>, then Go to Folder in the Finder menu. Paste this to get to this folder in the Home Library:
~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/
Move the MessageRules.plist files to the trash.
If you want to rebuild the message database at the same time, move the Envelope Index files to the trash. (Do not empty as they can be put back if problems arise).
Open Mail. If you chose to rebuild the database, then hit continue in the Message. This will rebuild your message index and could take a while, so be patient.
Try to create a rule and see if it works now.

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