Craig, If you highlight the message and then hit reply it will be included in the body of your email without the attachment. I don't know if there is a preference setting hidden someplace that will turn off the attachment. Jim On Mar 11, 2005, at 11:42, x4u-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote:Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:14:50 -0600 > From: Craig Hoffman <choffman at eclimb.net> > Subject: [X4U] Reply - Attachments > To: Mac OS X for Users <X4U at listserver.themacintoshguy.com> > Message-ID: <f8e24d64f92c6d10ec85b9153e5e2d08 at eclimb.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > When I reply to a message that has been sent with an attachment, Mail > includes the original attachment in the reply. This is irritating. How > can I reply without including the original attachment? I know I can > just delete the attachment or highlight some text and hit reply - but > its irritating. I should be able to reply to the "whole message" > without the attachment. Is there some setting I'm missing? > > Thanks - Craig