Why is Apple Mail sending photo files (JPEG) as ZIPPED Files

[swandy]

I had to send several photos to the secretary of our club. Whether I sent them together in one folder (three photos) or in separate folders the end result was the same. He received them as ZIP files instead of JPEGs. (He preferred not having the photos embedded in the emails, that is why I tried putting them in a folder and then attaching the folder to the email.) This worked perfectly two months ago, now they are Zipped. I could not understand it, so I also sent the same folders to my work email (we use Outlook at work) with the same Zip results.
Any suggestions on how to prevent this? Thanks

 

[BrianBaughn]

I'm not sure what version of macOS you were using two months ago that you were able to send an unzipped folder attachment. The default (and only AFAIK) behavior is to zip a folder attachment into a single file as I assume Mail (and perhaps email in general) can't handle the hierarchy of a folder and its contents.

 

[swandy]

My iMac is constantly updated so it would have been Big Sur. And he also said that putting the multiple photos in one folder worked the last time. Even if I send three folders with one picture in each he gets three Zip files.
he just doesn’t want them embedded and this - putting them in a folder - was suggested to prevent that.

 

[BrianBaughn]

I if send an email, with a folder containing 3 photos as an attachment, from one account (Gmail) to another (Exchange) on my Mac the folder is definitely zipped for the journey. When I look at the received email in Mail the folder just looks like a folder, however. Mail has automatically made it look like that. If I look at the same email at my Exchange webmail the folder is a zip file.

Folders attached to emails in Mail are zipped. How they look to the recipient depends on the email client they are using.

 

[swandy]

I if send an email, with a folder containing 3 photos as an attachment, from one account (Gmail) to another (Exchange) on my Mac the folder is definitely zipped for the journey. When I look at the received email in Mail the folder just looks like a folder, however. Mail has automatically made it look like that. If I look at the same email at my Exchange webmail the folder is a zip file.

Folders attached to emails in Mail are zipped. How they look to the recipient depends on the email client they are using.

Ah. Thanks. That must be why he sees that.