Always send Windows-friendly attachments in Mail

Oct 20, '04 08:54:00AM

Contributed by: laurence.wilks

If, like me, you work in an environment where there are many more PCs than Macs, it's useful to always select the following option when sending an attachment via Mail: Send Windows Friendly Attachments -- it's located at the bottom of the Attachment dialog box. However, there is no option in the preferences to do this for every new message. So I thought this was not possible, and that I'd have to choose it every time.

I accidentally discovered that there is an 'Always Send Windows Friendly Attachments' option in the Attachments sub-menu of the Edit menu which does just this. This will strip the attachment of the resource forks, which makes it Windows friendly. Of course if you send this to a Mac, it will still work OK.

[robg adds: I didn't realize this option was there, either, as you can only see the "Always" version in the Edit -> Attachments menu when looking at your main window. If you're already working on an email with an attachment, the sub-menu applies only to that email. Also note that if you send 'traditional' Mac programs to other Mac users, you do *not* want to strip the resource forks. A good number of Mac apps (older ones in particular) still keep a bunch of stuff in the resrouce fork.]

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