03-16-2009, 10:59 PM

I am trying to help someone with a problem they are having with Mail.

No matter what method they use it will not allow attachments to be added to new messages. This is on an Aluminium Intel iMac running OS 10.4.11 and Mail 2.1.3

We have tried the following (not necessarily in this order):

- reset the PRAM
- removed the mail plist file and reconfigured mail
- safe boot
- Permission repair

It can send and receive without problem. It has one other problem where it can no longer open saved drafts. If you double click on them they do nothing, double click again and it opens a new message window missing many of the defaults like the ability to choose from which account it is to be sent. We tried rebuilding the Draft mailbox but that did not help.

My next course of action will be use Mac Help Mate to clean caches etc. and then re-installing the 10.4.11 Combo Update.

Has anyone experienced something like this? If so what was the fix? Any ideas or suggestions would be most appreciated.

05-30-2009, 01:17 PM

I'm sorry, I don't have a fix, but I am trying to resolve the same issue. I've even gone as far as wiping my hard drive and re-installing OS X, and all updates, and still no success. Will let you know if I find a solution.

05-30-2009, 03:28 PM

I found the solution to my own problem. Take a look at attachments under the Edit tab in Mail. If you have " Always Save Attachments at End of Message" checked, then you cannot add any attachments unless you have some form of message typed first.