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cambolo · Nov 22, 2003, 09:36 AM

Is there any way in Mail.app in OS 10.3 to disable the disquieting feature that fills up the body of a new email with the attachment images I include? I do not want to waste time dealing with open images when composing emails and would like for the default setting to not "view in place" attachents that I do not wish in the body of the email.

I now resort to Entourage to achieve what should be a standard bloat reduction feature.

Any way around this "view in place" in Mail.app?

Cadaver · Nov 22, 2003, 10:24 AM

I don't believe there is. By design, I'd guess.
While I also use Mail myself, I do believe that Entourage has more features (aside from the lack of an effective junk mail filter).

dillerX · Nov 22, 2003, 10:26 AM

Control click the pic. One of the options is view as icon.

cambolo · Nov 22, 2003, 11:58 AM

dillerX-
I just tried the control-click feature and it converted the full image (24k) to an icon as you said. I then sent three emails with the icon view-along with three composed with the image in full view. Mail.app shows that all were sent. The emails with the full view I received immediately. Two of the three emails I sent with the icon view I received but are delayed 20 minutes or more. The third -the first icon view emaiI sent- has not come yet (it has been forty-five minutes since I sent it). I am using Enourage to receive mail and have no problems with it in any way.

I would like to have the icon view as the default -although with this screwy delay it may be moot since I'm not certain Mail.app is equipped to do this properly.

Thanks for the tip.

dillerX · Nov 22, 2003, 12:16 PM

Sounds to me like you need to fire your ISP if your mail is taking that long.

cambolo · Nov 22, 2003, 04:19 PM

I don't know what causes the delay. If I send an email with the image in its regular full view form I get it immediately. If the image is changed to Icon view using control-click, then it takes 20-30 minutes. Beats me. Another reason not to use Mail. I never have delays with Entourage.

This and the screwy address book design makes Mail a second class application. I got the haxie that puts an Address Book menu in the menu bar but Apple should have done that. This attachment problem is beyond comprehension.

philm · Nov 24, 2003, 07:26 AM

Originally posted by cambolo:
I then sent three emails with the icon view-along with three composed with the image in full view. Mail.app shows that all were sent. The emails with the full view I received immediately. Two of the three emails I sent with the icon view I received but are delayed 20 minutes or more. The third -the first icon view emaiI sent- has not come yet (it has been forty-five minutes since I sent it).

It's difficult to see how handling your attachments as either icon-visible or not-icon-visible can impact on processing the e-mail. Just to check, I have just repeated your exercise and both e-mails came to me instantly via SMTP/POP3.

cambolo · Nov 24, 2003, 09:14 AM

philm-

Thanks for the test and results. I'm going to run the same test again -It may be my ISP or may be a screwy Mail.app installation on this TiBook. I thought it was strange that it did it but had no answer.

cambolo · Nov 24, 2003, 09:26 AM

Just ran the test and emails- with both as icon and full view- sent and downloaded instantly. Go figure.

Thanks to all for the help.