Comments on: Disable Mac Mail.app Inline Image Attachments

By: Micah

Micah — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:57:06 +0000

@Kmart Yes if I ever implement threaded comments, this will be my testing ground! I’m surprised apple hasn’t resolved some of the issues related to Outlook. It’ll always make it hard to justify buying a Mac as a business computer.

By: Micah

Micah — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:53:20 +0000

@James I’m sorry I really don’t know. I could dig around but I really don’t have much interest in RTF mail at the moment.

By: Micah

Micah — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:35:58 +0000

@Carolyn Leroux – Alright, I just now successfully enabled them using this code, and restarting Mail. I’ll add this to the original post now too.

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool false

By: Carolyn Leroux

Carolyn Leroux — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:16:37 +0000

Help! I too tried to put things back to their original state after my work signature turned into inline thumbnails! I tried your “fix it” code (as given to Jenn) but it didn’t work.

Any other ideas??

By: mrcl

mrcl — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:44:56 +0000

thaaaank you very very much!!!!
it’s really very anoying!

By: Kmart

Kmart — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:46:41 +0000

Great fix! Thank you! I take it this is one of those gifts that keep on giving, given that you posted this a while ago and people like me are still benefiting .

By: James

James — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:32:17 +0000

Micah,

Thank you for all the informative posts. I know the arguments against using only RTF/HTML email, but I still want all my messages sent in RTF all the time. I have found that even with RTF selected in preferences Mac Mail seems to almost randomly send in Plain Text sometimes anyway. Do you or anybody else out there know how to force Mac Mail to always send in RTF? Also, I have noticed that recipients of my RTF emails sometimes also receive an .HTML attachment. Is there some way to prevent that from happening as well and why is that occurring? It doesn’t happen for the same friends receiving RTF/HTML email from other PC users.

Thanks so much!
James

By: Micah

Micah — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:19:35 +0000

@Jenn I think this will do it.
**edit 07/28/10 ** I removed this as it wasn’t working. The proper fix is now added to body of this post **/**

By: Jenn

Jenn — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:13:18 +0000

Hello,

I tried this

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes

Yes it does make every attachment you send act like an attachment instead of a pretty unusable decoration on my mac but now when they arrive on my PC they have turned into inline thumbnails instead of the normal attachments!

So, I tried

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool no

to put things back in their original state but no luck, still doing the same.

HELP, what do I do now?

Jenn

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:23:38 +0000

Thanks. On day Apple will realise that to become a real business machine they need to stop trying to be to cool…