Saving e-mail attachments (NOT PICTURES)

Does anyone know if there is an app out there that will allow you to save e-mail attachments? Word,excel, or PP.

Cannot be done. There is no user-accessible file system on the iPhone. Apps that allow file storage/transfer (Air Sharing, File Magnet, DataCase) store the files 'within' the apps themselves, and can only get them transferred over WiFi with the app active.

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My mail attachments are not saving to the folder I choose. When I select a file to save in the mail drop-down box, I am given options to save to a folder of my choice. However, when I select save the document is actually saved deep in some Mail Downloads area, not in my chosen folder. Has anyone had a similar problem and found a solution?

What kind of files are you trying to attach?
Is it all recipients having this problem or specific one(s)?
Could you possibly post a screenshot of the sent message from your side and a screenshot of what the recipient sees?
What happens if you send one of these messages to yourself?
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This happens when you have Always Insert Attachments at end of Message selected and you have not text in the body of the message. If you add any text, you should be able to add the attachment.
Seems to me it's a bit of an oversight of the programming in that it is trying to find the "end of the Message" but can't, so it fails silently.

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I use Mountain Lion OSX10.8.2 on a 27" iMac/1TB HD/12GB RAM.
When I write an Apple Mail email and attach a jpg (for example),
I am never sure if the attachment was sent.
Apple Mail will not show me in SENT that there was an attachment.
There is no record of the attachment on the previous sent email.
Am I missing something? How the heck am I suppose to know if
ANY attachment was sent or not?

Hmm I thought this got sorted out in 10.8 but maybe not.
I asume you are in full screen, with the three column view?
If you change to classic you should see the attachment paper clip?
What I had to do for a work-a-round was create a "rule." Even with this you have to right click the selected sent box>> apply rules
Follow throught this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3226400?tstart=0

Saving e-mail attachments

Anyone know of a way of saving an e-mail attachment, or the whole e-mail with the attachment? I thought if I just moved it to the "Drafts" folder, I could use it like a place to save things, but that did not work.
Any way to create an extra mail folder on the iPhone?

No, you can't create folders on the iphone or save attachments on the iphone.
If you have an imap account on the iphone, you can create the folder in the imap account using your computer. Then you can use that folder to move mail to on the iphone.
Hope this helps.

Mail attachments not displaying correctly

Hi all,
I did a search about this but didn't find anything.
The problem I am having is when I attach a pdf that I made with Illustrator, the pdf will sometimes show up wrong (all black, missing parts of the art, wrong colors, etc) in my message before I send it.
These are proofs that I'm sending to customers and so far, I haven't gotten any complaints. If I open the attachment in Acrobat, it looks fine. Sometimes if I open it in preview or coverflow though, I get the same issue that I see in Mail when I attach it to send.
This only seems to happen with pdf files so far and didn't used to happen. (I'm not sure exactly when it started, probably some time in the last 2-3 months)
Does anyone have any ideas what might be happening?
Thanks

Thanks for the reply Bob.
When I make a pdf in Illustrator, I do a save as and save a pdf that can be read back into Illustrator. (Illustrator Default with compatibility save to Acrobat 6 (PDF 1.5) I have to do it this way to ensure that my files can be read without any issues by printing plate makers once the proof is approved.
I've been saving files this way for the last 3+ years and never had a problem before now.
It is just a cosmetic issue on my end, but I would like to be able to see the pdf accurately before I send it like I used to be able to do.
I've got one customer who uses Preview for pdf's, but they haven't had any issues so far. They also use an older version of Preview (I think they are still running 10.4 or 10.5)
Its good to know the file isn't getting messed up, but I'd like it to work the way it should.
Any other thoughts?

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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
Any suggestions?

The correct settings for Gmail are posted below, verify that your settings match.
Incoming
Gmail IMAP server address: imap.gmail.com
Gmail IMAP user name: Your full Gmail address (e.g. [email protected])
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
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I use the Mail app to send email from a variety of email accounts. Recently, I have not been able to send MS-Word attachments to a MS-Windows user. On my end, the messages shows up has having been sent complete with attachments, but the Windows receiver of my email only receives the email message with attachments missing. I have been having this problem with all of my accounts using Mail. Any ideas?

Send the message in Plain Text to those using Outlook -- has nothing to do with file type, but only the formatting of the message text. Try one you have sent previously -- open it in the Sent mailbox, click on Message/Send Again followed by Format/Make Plain Text.
Outlook and Outlook Express mess up Rich Text from other email clients, and ever from each other.
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I have a user with 7.04 on company iPhone. Exchange account set up through mail.
He is trying to send pictures from the phone to his own email account, the building he works in doesn't have a good signal(no wireless there either). He will select a picture to send, and it either won't ever show up or it will show up days later (even when selecting a small size).
I tested the phone in a area with a good signal, it was able to send pictures at full size relatively quickly. So it's obvious without a slow connection the mail program is working - but I'm curious if there is an app or a setting I can change that will reliably email the photo's even with a slow connection, even if it takes a while. It seems like the mail is failing, but he isn't getting any delivery failure message.
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Without a good connection, you won't be able to send anything.

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As a follow-up, Apple did help.
Called Tech Support and spoke at length with Mujahid. He went through the system carefully and confirmed (by creating another 'user account') that the problem was 'system wide'. He then requested that I trash the current Mail application and re-install Mail from the disks that were provided with the iMac. I then restarted the iMac, opened Mail (now v2.1.1), created a test email and attached a jpeg...............
Eureka! Problem solved. No more blue lego cubes with question marks.
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Mountain Lion's Mail seems to be very flakey.
The main problem I have is that quite often when an email comes in with an attachement all I see is an icon with a download arrow. When I click it nothing happens. Usually I have to open the message in a new window, click loads of times until eventually it opens (usually several copies of it).
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Activity shows the mail coming in and that it takes a little wile to download as if the attachment is being transferred.
Its getting really anoyying. Never had this problem before in Lion or previous.

Please follow these directions to delete the Mail "sandbox" folder.
Back up all data.
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~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu.* A Finder window should open with a folder named "com.apple.mail" selected. If it does, move the selected folder — not just its contents — to the Desktop. Leave the Finder window open for now.
Quit and relaunch Mail, and test. If the problem is resolved, you may have to recreate some of your Mail settings. You can then delete the folder you moved and close the Finder window. If you still have the problem, quit Mail again and put the folder back where it was, overwriting the one that may have been created in its place. Post your results.
Caution: If you change any of the contents of the sandbox, but leave the folder itself in place, Mail may crash or not launch at all. Deleting the whole sandbox will cause it to be rebuilt automatically.
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It's the way Mac Mail is designed, it embeds images and attachments rather then actually attaching them.
What you can do however is have a look at Attachment Tamer, it changes the default behaviour of mail to attach rather then embed which i think is what you're looking for.
Attachment Tamer
http://lokiware.info/Attachment-Tamer
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I am experiencing problems when using the new Apple Mail 5.0 (with OSX Lion) to send PDF attachments. The recipient using MS Outlook on a PC will see the email, see the attachment icon (paper clip) but they cannot click to open the attachment.
It's like the attachment was stripped off the email.
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I also have this problem, it seems to be something to do with this: http://support.apple.com/kb/TA22343 but I cannot find the "View in Place" or "View as Icon" options. Anyone had any luck?
This however, maybe the cause (with no real solution but to switch to plain text format): http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesoftwareupdate/thread/7 98ae640-9091-44c9-b663-63152eb2f0fe/

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Interesting.
I have such this info displayed on my emails with attachments.
Do you see the "Details" thingy at the upper right hand corner of the message window?
If so, click on it.
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