Plugin to scan for missing attachments
James Eagan has written a clever plugin. It scans a Mail.app message and will let you know if you have referred to an attachment but forgotten to include it.
It comes in the form of a classic plugin mailbundle which you can drop into the Bundle directory in your Mail folder after quitting Mail.
If you refer to an attachment in the email but try to send it without attaching one, you will see this warning:
The plugin only works with OS 10.4.
I’ve been using it for about three minutes and have not encountered any conflicts with other plugins and addons.
As far as I can tell, the plugin is freeware and is available from James’ web site 
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UPDATE: Sebastian has posted a link in the comments to a German version of the plugin.
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April 6th, 2006 at 1:30 am
If this only worked in German, too…
April 6th, 2006 at 1:32 am
Why not drop James an email and offer to do a German localisation?
April 6th, 2006 at 1:55 am
I’m already on it! :-)
April 6th, 2006 at 2:21 am
Well, it would be really easy to change if there weren’t those nasty German umlauts ä, ö and ü. I’m out of luck at the moment and wrote an email to James. I’m confident he knows how to do it.
April 6th, 2006 at 9:59 am
I need this for Thunderbird too. That’d be sweeeeet.
April 6th, 2006 at 11:10 am
Hurray! Now Mail has something similar to Mulberry’s “missing attachments warning”.
Maybe James (or someone with sufficient skill) will add a prefpane where patterns to be matched can be added instead of using a hardcoded list?
April 6th, 2006 at 11:58 pm
Does anyone know of a plugin like this for 10.3.9? Someone out there must be able to port Eagan’s 10.4 version, right?
April 7th, 2006 at 12:56 am
Here’s the German version which checks for English and German appearances of attachment-specific words:
http://www.skraatz.de/apple/anhang-prufplugin-fur-mail
Thanks to James for helping me out with the German umlauts. :)
April 7th, 2006 at 1:02 am
Excellent, Sebastian. Thanks!
April 7th, 2006 at 1:08 am
[...] Gestern las ich bei Tim Gadens Hawk Wings über ein Plugin, das genau dieses Problem vermeiden soll. Es filtert im Text vorkommene Wörter, die auf einen Anhang hindeuten, und gibt beim Senden eine Warnung aus, sollte kein Anhang vorhanden sein. Soweit genial, leider funktionierte das nur mit englischen Texten. Nach ein paar E-Mails mit dem Autoren des Plugins, James R. Eagan, und dem Kampf mit dem »Ã¤« in »angehängt« (Unicode- und MIME-Codierung lassen grüßen!), spricht das Plugin nun auch deutsch – und funktioniert einwandfrei. Zusätzlich ist auch die Dialogbox von mir übersetzt worden. [...]
October 21st, 2006 at 2:03 am
Wrote to James Eagan to ask whether his Attachment Scanner will eventually be available for Panther OS (10.3.9) and he replied in the negative.
Would anyone know whether a similar plug-in is available for Panther instead just for Tiger?
Thanks for your help, if any is forthcoming.
Rudy
December 24th, 2006 at 9:02 pm
Rudolph how did you contact with James Eagan? I am trying to make a very simple universal plugin and I would like some information, so I sent him email and i didn’t get an answer. Does anybody know if the source code is published somewhere?