Sending Attachments in Apple Mail

[Tannis Wightman]

When I attach pdf files to an email in Apple Mail they will appear either as a full image or as an icon when I am composing the email. I don't understand what determines which they appear as. I can make them all show as icons in the composed email using the mouse but when the email is sent it reverts to the way it was before I switched to all icons. This is confusing for the recipient. I want Mail to send attachments as a icons as a default setting. How can I do this?
Tannis

 

[Jimmysb]

My first Mac this year, and I have been using mail, and find attachment in general appear in the body of the mail as opposed to an icon attachment, which is what I was use to.

 

[Randy B. Singer]

I want Mail to send attachments as a icons as a default setting. How can I do this?

How an attachment appears to your recipient depends mostly on THEIR settings in their e-mail program.

If you want to send an e-mail attachment to somebody, and you want to be sure that it isn't embedded in the body of the e-mail when received, the easiest thing to do is to put the attachment (e.g. a PDF or a photo) into a folder.

So, what you do is create a Folder, pop the attachment into that folder, and attach the Folder to the email.

When I attach pdf files to an email in Apple Mail they will appear either as a full image or as an icon when I am composing the email. I don't understand what determines which they appear as.

I don’t recall what the size limit is, but Mail automatically shows PDF’s in the body of an e-mail if they are below a certain size. Above a certain size they show up as an icon.