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I want to stop email attachments appearing inline

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writesuccess

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Mar 15, 2012
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I want to receive email attachments in Mac Mail as separate attachments and not have them displaying inline in my emails. I tried the free Attachment Tamer software, but it bugged me too much because it kept asking me to make a purchase all the time.

What I want to know is if there is anyway at all, within Mac Mail, to force attachments to no appear in the body of the emails.

I know several people have posted about this before but I can't find any satisfactory answer, if there is one at all. There seems to be no choice of settings for how email attachments are displayed.

Every time someone sends me a photo, it appears in the email body. I want to it appear as an attachment I have to open to look at it.

If anyone has an ideas (without using 3rd party software) I'd be more than grateful.
 
writesuccess said:
I want to receive email attachments in Mac Mail as separate attachments and not have them displaying inline in my emails. I tried the free Attachment Tamer software, but it bugged me too much because it kept asking me to make a purchase all the time.

What I want to know is if there is anyway at all, within Mac Mail, to force attachments to no appear in the body of the emails.

I know several people have posted about this before but I can't find any satisfactory answer, if there is one at all. There seems to be no choice of settings for how email attachments are displayed.

Every time someone sends me a photo, it appears in the email body. I want to it appear as an attachment I have to open to look at it.

If anyone has an ideas (without using 3rd party software) I'd be more than grateful.
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What is wrong with those money hungry people that developed Attachment Tamer. How dare they want money for their time and effort. There is an easy to do what you want but because you are too cheap, I feel that I want to charge for my advice.
 
Quit Mail if it is running.
In Terminal (from /Applications/Utilities/) paste the following command:
Code: 
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes

To revert back to the default behaviour use the following command:
Code: 
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool false
Relaunch Mail.
 
sapporobaby said:
What is wrong with those money hungry people that developed Attachment Tamer. How dare they want money for their time and effort. There is an easy to do what you want but because you are too cheap, I feel that I want to charge for my advice.
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Judging by your signature, I can safely say that most people are not in the same financial situation as you. He was simply asking for a free alternative. No need to be rude about it.
 
attachments inline

dZp said:
Quit Mail if it is running.
In Terminal (from /Applications/Utilities/) paste the following command:
Code: 
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes

To revert back to the default behaviour use the following command:
Code: 
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool false
Relaunch Mail.
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I tried this code but it didn't do anything. I opened terminal and pasted
"defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes" without the quotation marks
What did I do wrong?
 
Correction

skidaddle said:
I tried this code but it didn't do anything. I opened terminal and pasted
"defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes" without the quotation marks
What did I do wrong?
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I retried it and it worked!
Thank you.
 
Thank you!

This worked! Many thanks!

dZp said:
Quit Mail if it is running.
In Terminal (from /Applications/Utilities/) paste the following command:
Code: 
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes

To revert back to the default behaviour use the following command:
Code: 
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool false
Relaunch Mail.
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dZp said:
Quit Mail if it is running.
In Terminal (from /Applications/Utilities/) paste the following command:
Code: 
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes

To revert back to the default behaviour use the following command:
Code: 
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool false
Relaunch Mail.
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I was excited about this solution, but unfortunately I have a signature file that contains images (corporate), and this command line stopped the images from appearing ... you would only see the filename.

Any other solutions?
 
Padt's Pop said:
I was excited about this solution, but unfortunately I have a signature file that contains images (corporate), and this command line stopped the images from appearing ... you would only see the filename.

Any other solutions?
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Isn't that behavior controlled by the receiving email client?

As a side note I think Sigs contain graphics is a bad idea especially since some admins auto reject any emails with graphic attachments to avoid malware.
 
dZp said:
Quit Mail if it is running.
In Terminal (from /Applications/Utilities/) paste the following command:
Code: 
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes

To revert back to the default behaviour use the following command:
Code: 
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool false
Relaunch Mail.
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Did not work for me in Mojave 10.14.6
 
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