- Dec 17, 2016 How to Fix Disappearing Mail Attachments on Mac OS Open the Mail app on Mac OS if you haven’t done so already Pull down the “Mailbox” menu and choose “Rebuild” from the option on the bottom, let the email mailbox (es) rebuild. Next, go to the “Mail” menu and choose “Preferences Select “Accounts”.
- Aug 04, 2018 Change the Sync Settings in the Mail App and check. On Search, click on “Mail” to open the Mail App.
Aug 07, 2019 Follow These Tips To Get Your iPad or iPhone Mail Working. Make sure your account is set-up to sync Mail; Check if the iCloud, AOL, Outlook, or Google mail servers are down via sites like Down Detector or similar. Look at the reports for the last 24 hours as well as a Live Outage Map. Mar 09, 2020 If you have a Mac, open the Mail App and mark all your emails as read. This usually solves the problem; Open your email via a web browser or its own app (not Apple’s Mail App), then type in label: unread in the search box. This search should show you any messages in your account that are flagged as unread–the mark them as read, read them. Sep 27, 2019 You can use Markup to draw and type directly on an attachment, like an image or PDF document. Click the Attach button or choose File Attach Files in the message window. Choose an attachment, then click Choose File. Click the menu icon that appears in the upper-right corner of the attachment, then choose Markup.
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Mail User Guide
You can include photos, documents, and more when you write messages.
When you attach images or PDF documents, you can mark them up in Mail before you send your message.
Include photos and other files in emails
In the Mail app on your Mac, do any of the following:
- Click the Attach button in the toolbar, locate a file (you may need to click the sidebar button to see additional folders), select it, then click Choose File.You can also drag files from the desktop, the Finder, or an app into your message.
- For photos, click the Photo Browser button in the toolbar, then drag a photo into your message. You can also take a photo or scan documents, or add a sketch, using your nearby iPhone or iPad.
By default, Mail inserts images at their actual size. If different sizes are available, you can choose one from the pop-up menu located on the right side of the message header.
Send large email attachments using Mail Drop
You can use Mail Drop to send files that exceed the maximum size allowed by your email account provider. Mail Drop uploads large attachments to iCloud, where they’re encrypted and stored for up to 30 days.
- If you have an iCloud account and you’re signed in to iCloud when you click Send, Mail automatically sends the attachments using Mail Drop. Mail Drop attachments don’t count against your iCloud storage.
- If you don’t have an iCloud account, or if you’re not signed in, Mail asks you whether to use Mail Drop (to always use Mail Drop select “Don’t ask again for this account”).
If a recipient uses Mail in OS X 10.10 or later, the attachments are included in your message. For other recipients, your message includes links for downloading the attachments, and their expiration date.
You can turn Mail Drop on or off for an account. Choose Mail > Preferences, click Accounts, select the account, click Advanced, then select or deselect “Send large attachments with Mail Drop.”
See the Apple Support article Mail Drop limits.
Put email attachments at the end of messages
Mac Mail Not Showing Attachments
In the Mail app on your Mac, do one of the following:
- For the current message: Choose Edit > Attachments > Insert Attachments at End of Message.
- For all messages: From the Message viewer, choose Edit > Attachments > Always Insert Attachments at End of Message (a checkmark shows it’s on).
Include or exclude email attachments in replies
In the Mail app on your Mac, do one of the following:
- Include or exclude original attachments in a reply: In the toolbar of the message window, click the Include Attachment button or the Exclude Attachment button .
- Include or exclude original attachments in all replies: From the Message viewer, choose Edit > Attachments > Include Original Attachments in Reply (a checkmark shows it’s on). To turn it off and exclude attachments, choose the command again (the checkmark is removed).
Send email attachments to Windows users
In the Mail app on your Mac, try these suggestions:
- Send Windows-friendly attachments. To do so for all messages, choose Edit > Attachments, then select Always Send Windows-Friendly Attachments. For a specific message, click the Attach button in the toolbar of the new message window, then select Send Windows-Friendly Attachments (if you don’t see the checkbox, click Options in the bottom corner).
- Send documents as PDFs instead of in their original format.
- Use filename extensions (such as .docx for a Microsoft Word document).
- If the recipient sees two attachments (such as “MyFile” and “._MyFile”), the recipient can ignore the file with the underscore (such as “._MyFile”).
To display an attachment (such as a one-page PDF document or an image) as an icon, Control-click the attachment in your message, then choose View as Icon. To show the attachment again, Control-click it, then choose View in Place.
If the message size shown on the left side of the message header is red, the attachments are causing your message to exceed size limits set by your email account provider. Try reducing the number or size of attachments or use Mail Drop.
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A few operating systems ago, there was an excellent Terminal command that would let you disable inline attachments in Mail. What are inline attachments? Well, as you may have noticed, when you insert an image or a single-page PDF, the item plops itself right in the body of your email.
That’s kind of cool, but it’s frustrating and weird for a lot of people. And by “a lot of people,” I mean me. I like being able to drag my attachments around as icons, and while I know you can change a single attachment by right-clicking on it…
…that’s just not convenient to do all of the time. Luckily, the command that disables this feature is working again in El Capitan, so let’s rejoice and check it out! To do so, open the Terminal program (it’s within Applications > Utilities) and copy and paste the following text into its window:
Press Return, and then instead of your attachments looking like they do in my first screenshot, they’ll all be icons, like this:
I just find things so much easier to manage that way!
If you decide you don’t like this setup, you can reverse the command by changing the last word:
And that’s all there is to it.
One more thing—be aware that if you change this on your own machine, it won’t necessarily affect how your recipients see things. For example, I put images and a PDF into an email as shown in the screenshot below:
And this is how it showed up on the other end:
So this command is solely for your own email-attachment happiness. That’s enough for me, though!