[X4U] Mail.app Scales Graphics and Videos

[John Kiss]

On Apr 28, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Randy B. Singer wrote:

> Why?  Have you heard anything about Safari having any effect on Mail?

I had a problem with Mail when I downloaded and used Safari 4. At the  
first run of Mail after installing Safari 4, something got messed up  
and Mail didn't recognize most of my previously downloaded messages. I  
ended up having to manually delete thousands of duplicate messages.  
Once I got that cleared up, I quit and restarted Mail. This time mail  
hung. I assumed it was an errant message and used my browser to log  
onto my ISP and deleted all of my latest messages. Restarted Mail and  
it hung again. After some searching on the net I discovered that on  
some machines Mail has problems. It seems that Safari 4 uses an  
updated WebKit framework that Mail also uses. Not sure which site I  
discovered this on. Anyway, the solution was to uninstall Safari 4  
using the uninstaller that came with Safari 4 Beta. I did that and  
Mail started behaving the way it should. I still don't have Safari 4  
installed because of that issue.

My thought, in your case, was that if the WebKit framework is  
involved, maybe, just maybe it could affect how the attachments get  
treated. Knowing your Mac capabilities, I only provided what I thought  
would be a "fringe" solution. Boy, was I wrong!

One other solution that I haven's seen posted yet is a reinstall of  
the Mail application, either via Time Machine or Pacifist.