Mac OS X Mail, Attachment help PLZ FAST

[M. Malone]

I need help with Mail, if someone sends me a file attachment like a song or something, and it's arrived to the server, I click "get mail" and it begins "retrieving mail" if there is a file attached, it keeps retrieving for a while, basically it downloads the file as it is retrieving the email. So I have to wait.

What I wanna be able to do is, some how only have the subject downloaded, thus saving time, and then when I double click the subject, it downloads the e-mail so I can view it (for example the e-mail saying: "this is a picture of a car" I may not be interested), then after I read the e-mail, I can decide whether or not I wanna download the attached file.

Please tell me that can be done

[OutThere]

I need help with Mail, if someone sends me a file attachment like a song or something, and it's arrived to the server, I click "get mail" and it begins "retrieving mail" if there is a file attached, it keeps retrieving for a while, basically it downloads the file as it is retrieving the email. So I have to wait.

What I wanna be able to do is, some how only have the subject downloaded, thus saving time, and then when I double click the subject, it downloads the e-mail so I can view it (for example the e-mail saying: "this is a picture of a car" I may not be interested), then after I read the e-mail, I can decide whether or not I wanna download the attached file.

Please tell me that can be done

Try setting the "Prompt Me To Skip Messages over [ ] Kb" in Mail Prefs -> Accounts -> Advanced.

[fortgreen1]

easy fix,

/prefereces/Accounts/

select the account

in advanced,
where it says

"prompt me to skip messages over [ ]KB"
you type in maybe 20k.

that way you don't have to deal with downloading attachment till you browse what you received.

very convenient for dial up modem users.

good luck



I need help with Mail, if someone sends me a file attachment like a song or something, and it's arrived to the server, I click "get mail" and it begins "retrieving mail" if there is a file attached, it keeps retrieving for a while, basically it downloads the file as it is retrieving the email. So I have to wait.

What I wanna be able to do is, some how only have the subject downloaded, thus saving time, and then when I double click the subject, it downloads the e-mail so I can view it, then after I read the e-mail, I can decide whether or not I wanna download the attached file.

that is basically what most e-mail do.

[M. Malone]

You guys are kick ass, thanks, is this as good as it gets? I mean is there a way I can read the content of the e-mail before Downloading the attachment?

[pncc]

You guys are kick ass, thanks, is this as good as it gets? I mean is there a way I can read the content of the e-mail before Downloading the attachment?

Try using webmail. many ISPs provide it directly. mailtoweb.com also provides it. You can view your mail via the WWW.

[varmit]

If you go under view in the mail app preferences, there is the check for display images and embedded texted, but I still think it downloads the image with the text, this just takes it out.