Attaché: Script for smarter attachments
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Some people are unhappy with the way Mail.app truncates the names of attachments so that you can’t quite see at a glance what you are clicking on.
They think, in turn, that it’s discourteous to do this to others.
Attaché is the utility for them. It is an AppleScript that provides full information in the body of the email for all enclosed attachments.
Put it in your Dock or on your Desktop (or wherever you can find it easily).
Drop some emails on the applet and it packages them up so that it’s clear at once what the recipient is getting:
The applet allows you to set a number of default parameters.
Open up the app and you are greeted with a Preferences pane that let’s you specify a default language (English, German, French, Italian).
I’ve blogged this before, but the author has now added additional preferences. You can now set the account that Mail will use to compose the message and pick a default signature.
Further options allow you to set a default subject and to import text to form the default body of the message.
This will appeal especially to knowledge workers (like me) who spend a lot of time shunting documents and whatnot around from one place to another, although others who want or need to identify attachments more closely in their emails will like it too.
Attaché is freeware. It was created by Martin Michel, who hopes soon to add the ability to zip files dropped on the applet and to set default recipients. It is available from its own page 
on MacScripter.
On Apple Discussions Martin Marconcini 
Loki Software has released an updated version of its 
Like many people (but apparently not all), when I drag an item from the Finder to Mail.app’s Dock icon, it launches two messages, the first without the attachment, the second one with it.
Pierre Igot 
Adam Nohejl at Lokiware has updated his plugin which manages the way Apple Mail displays attachments. 
