Funny thing happened after I upgrade to Yosemite — clients started telling me to re-attach the image I had just sent them.

After doing a little testing I see that sent images are indeed no longer “attachments” to Yosemite’s Mail.app. Lovely… I spend at least eight hours a day in my email client (sending attachments, images, etc.) and Apple has totally and completely borked the app, borked something so basic.

Screenshots are of emails sent from Yosemite’s Mail.

Below is how regular attachments show up in Gmail (also Thunderbird and Postbox):

Below is how image attachments show up in Gmail (also Thunderbird and Postbox):

The image renders as a thumbnail without an option to view or download the full size version. WTF?

The only thing you can do is right-click the image and open the image in a new window. Most people are gonna figure that out right away. Sure.

Further — emails with images don’t get the regular paper clip attachment indicator that other emails do in Mail itself:

When scanning emails for particular messages, that little paper clip was a huge time savor — not anymore.

I understand that some users have a hard time figuring out how to send large images over email and Apple was attempting to do something nifty with their whole Mail Drop thingy.

What they’ve really done instead is screwed users over. This implementation is broken and stupid. If you can’t figure out that you’re not supposed to send a 5GB file attachment, then that’s your problem. Apple shouldn’t be “fixing” crap like this for stupid users while also “breaking” non-issues for smart users.

I’ve resorted to sending my images inside PDFs because nobody can see them full size. Sometimes I’ll just upload them and send a link.

Both Thunderbird and Postbox look abandoned otherwise I’d switch back to one of them. I may give Airmail another shot.

#fail #apple #email