Also when composing new mail, don't drag attachments into the mail message if you plan to send the mail to a Windows users. If you use the Attach button, you'll see a new "Send Windows Friendly Attachments" checkbox at the bottom of the dialog box.
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The new Mail.app in Panther (also in 10.3.1) makes attachments "Read Only" when dragging from Mail onto the desktop. If you use the "Save All" button in the header instead, the privileges are set correctly.
Also when composing new mail, don't drag attachments into the mail message if you plan to send the mail to a Windows users. If you use the Attach button, you'll see a new "Send Windows Friendly Attachments" checkbox at the bottom of the dialog box.
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10.3: Don't drag and drop attachments to/from Mail
as far as windows users go.. i have no idea what that means, but i've been sending attachments to windows users every day, multiple times a day and have had no errors reported to me.
10.3: Don't drag and drop attachments to/from Mail
I just sent two identical emails, one with each method (D&D, Attach) and the results were identical. I'd suspect it merely doesn't send the resource fork in the case that the file has one, which tends to mess up Windows users 'cause they see two files not one, one of which is readable, the other is "garbage" to them.
10.3: Don't drag and drop attachments to/from Mail
I send a PDF'd x-mas list to my mother in-law who thought she was missing something as two files showed up in her email, one that did nothing. I'm assuming the "send Widows friendly..." bit will keep out that erroneous extra attachment.
10.3: Don't drag and drop attachments to/from Mail
You can set mail.app to always use "windows" friendly attachments, by going:
10.3: Don't drag and drop attachments to/from Mail
I believe it has to do with the resource forks. I've had complaints from Windows users that they've gotten attachments which they couldn't read - in addition to the one I sent. So it must be creating second attachments from the resource forks, which show up on Windows machines, but not on Macs.
10.3: Don't drag and drop attachments to/from Mail
I could be wrong...
10.3: Don't drag and drop attachments to/from Mail
The most obvious place where ressource fork are still used in macosx is in non generic icons. If you change the icon of a file to something else than the generic icon, this icon resides in a ressource. I believe all HFS+ mete-data will be send this way, as a ressource file, by mail.
10.3: Don't drag and drop attachments to/from Mail
IMHO "Send Windows Friendly Attachments" is a misnomer, and might put many Mac users off.
10.3: Don't drag and drop attachments to/from Mail
sorry, but what a stupid design of the Mail app: settings are set in the preferences, but attachment prefs are set directly in the edit menu. Really, where has the renown apple human interface consistancy gone?
10.3: Don't drag and drop attachments to/from Mail
I send a lot of email in a certain asian language for which I am so grateful for i18n support in OSX. (It's one of the primary reasons I left my gentoo boxen behind for my nice iBook) That said, some of my friends who are stuck using windows (would like to switch but their business runs on it) can't read attachments with unicode filenames. In fact, they can't even manipulate the files to give them a different name... I have to re-send the message using either some broken proprietary encoding *cough*S-JIS*cough* or else rename it to use the boring ascii set...-_- wonder if the fix is for that? |
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