{"id":120,"date":"2011-06-13T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2011\/06\/13\/how-to-make-mailapp-stop-posting-inline\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:49:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:49:02","slug":"how-to-make-mailapp-stop-posting-inline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2011\/06\/13\/how-to-make-mailapp-stop-posting-inline\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make Mail.app stop posting inline attachments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you use Apple&#8217;s default email program, Mail, you may have run into this problem.<\/p>\n<p>When I click on the Attachment icon to send someone a file, Mail automatically adds the file as an inline image, which drives me crazy.<\/p>\n<p>I searched through all the preferences, but I couldn&#8217;t find a way to change this behaviour, so I had to keep right-clicking on the image and choosing &#8220;View as Icon&#8221; from the menu. That fixed the problem, but it was a pain.<\/p>\n<p>Then I found the answer via <a href=\"http:\/\/micahgilman.com\/play\/disable-mac-mailapp-inline-image-attachments\/\">Micah Gilman&#8217;s Blog<\/a>. Thank you Micah!<\/p>\n<p>If this is a problem for you, you&#8217;ll appreciate this fix. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micahgilman.com\/play\/disable-mac-mailapp-inline-image-attachments\/\">Here&#8217;s the link<\/a> to the blog post, or you can just follow along below.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve found this to be a real annoyance, especiallly with a business where I have to send images in emails often. Mail.app by default displays images inline, and most email clients won\u2019t recognize them as attachments. If you right click (or ctrl click with a one button mouse) on the image you can select to view the image as icon, which makes it behave like a normal attachment. To make this the default behavior you\u2019ll need to use the Terminal to set the preference. Terminal is in Applications>Utilities. Open Terminal and type:<\/p>\n<p>defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes<\/p>\n<p>That will make every attachment you send act like an attachment instead of a pretty unusable decoration.<\/p>\n<p>If you decide this isn\u2019t what you\u2019re looking for, to restore inline attachment viewing type:<\/p>\n<p>defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool false<\/p>\n<p>Restart Mail and you\u2019re back to normal.<\/p>\n<p>One more thing, if you\u2019re having the issue that Mail is resizing your image like Lissa describes in her comment below, after attaching a file, make sure that you select \u201cActual Size\u201d from the \u201cImage Size\u201d pulldown in the lower right corner of your message window.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/micahgilman.com\/play\/disable-mac-mailapp-inline-image-attachments\/\">Disable Mac Mail.app Inline Image Attachments | Micah Gilman&#8217;s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you use Apple&#8217;s default email program, Mail, you may have run into this problem. When I click on the Attachment icon to send someone a file, Mail automatically adds the file as an inline image, which drives me crazy. I searched through all the preferences, but I couldn&#8217;t find a way to change this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-1W","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}