In the Mail app on your Mac, do any of the following: Click the Attach button in the toolbar, locate a file (you may need to click the sidebar button to see additional folders), select it, then click Choose File. You can also drag files from the desktop, the Finder, or an app into your message. An attachment is automatically saved to the Mail Downloads folder whenever you: Open the file with a double-click or with the Open Attachment command in its contextual menu. Control-click a file.
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Just like with your current email app, the Mail app in Windows 10 enables you to receive and download attachments. When an attachment arrives in an email, you’ll recognize it: A paperclip icon rests next to the email’s subject. And when you open the email, you see a generic photo thumbnail or a message saying, “Download Message. In the Mail app on your Mac, move the pointer over the header of a message. Click the Attach button that appears, click the name of an attachment or choose Save All, then choose a location. You can also select a message, then choose File Save Attachments. Or drag an attachment from the message to the desktop to save it there.
You can include photos, documents, and more when you write messages.
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When you attach images or PDF documents, you can mark them up in Mail before you send your message.
Include photos and other files in emails
In the Mail app on your Mac, do any of the following:
By default, Mail inserts images at their actual size. If different sizes are available, you can choose one from the pop-up menu located on the right side of the message header.
Send large email attachments using Mail Drop
You can use Mail Drop to send files that exceed the maximum size allowed by your email account provider. Mail Drop uploads large attachments to iCloud, where they’re encrypted and stored for up to 30 days.
If a recipient uses Mail in OS X 10.10 or later, the attachments are included in your message. For other recipients, your message includes links for downloading the attachments, and their expiration date.
You can turn Mail Drop on or off for an account. Choose Mail > Preferences, click Accounts, select the account, click Advanced, then select or deselect “Send large attachments with Mail Drop.”
See the Apple Support article Mail Drop limits.
Put email attachments at the end of messages
In the Mail app on your Mac, do one of the following:
Include or exclude email attachments in replies
In the Mail app on your Mac, do one of the following:
Send email attachments to Windows users
In the Mail app on your Mac, try these suggestions:
To display an attachment (such as a one-page PDF document or an image) as an icon, Control-click the attachment in your message, then choose View as Icon. To show the attachment again, Control-click it, then choose View in Place.
If the message size shown on the left side of the message header is red, the attachments are causing your message to exceed size limits set by your email account provider. Try reducing the number or size of attachments or use Mail Drop.
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Finding my Mac a bit slow and not able to run as smoothly as I’d have liked, I decided to shoot out the clutter. While cleaning up the storage hogging files and also discovering the tricks to keep them at bay, I came to know that the stock Mail app was playing the villainous role.
By default, Apple’s email app automatically download all the recent attachments (up to 15 months old) regardless of their importance. As I like to manage storage smartly, I found this feature unnecessary. And hence, I decided to completely stop Mac’s Mail app from downloading attachments automatically.
Should you also want to disable this auto-downloading feature, follow along as I walk you through the quick steps!
How to Prevent Mac’s Mail App from Downloading Attachments Automatically
Step #1. Launch Mail app on your Mac.
Step #2. Now, click on the Mail menu at the top left and choose Preferences.
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Step #3. Next, ensure that the Accounts tab is selected. Then, choose the email account which attachments you no longer want to download automatically.
Step #4. Click on the drop-down menu next to Download Attachments.
Step #5. Next up, you have three options:
Select “None” if you want to have complete control over which attached a file to download and which one to ignore.
You can configure the download attachment drop-down menu of all of your email accounts based on your requirement. Once you’ve perfectly customized it, quit the setting.
That’s pretty much it!
Wrapping up…
So, that’s how you can prevent the Mail app from cluttering the storage on your macOS device. One of the simplest tricks to help the Mac run smoothly is to smartly keep the junk files away.
If you ignore them, they will keep piling up in the background and eventually slow down your device. Therefore, never let them have a free run.
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