Open Mail app > bottom left, click the gear icon (settings) > right side, click Reading > under External Content heading, see if your email account is listed > make sure "Automatically download external images " is ON. (and, of course, if it's long existed, why hasn't it been fixed by now?)Īny help would be greatly appreciated!I don't use the Mail app.
Is this a Creators Update bug or has it long existed? So, anyone have any other ideas? Is this a known bug? I saw references to it being a known bug but that was back in 2015.
I also tried running the Windows app troubleshooter. But reports are coming in that hundreds of thousands of other Gmail users are facing the same situation lost emails in Gmail, ZERO Inbox. I opened up Gmail in Edge and I could see the attachments clear as day.Īfter some searching I tried two possible solutions: one, I re-selected "Mail" as the default app in my settings. First I thought that his Gmail account has been compromised and someone else has successfully logged into his Gmail account and deleted all the emails, sent mails, chat logs, attachments and everything else. The only reason I knew there should be attachments to one particular e-mail was because the e-mail itself mentioned attachments. No paper clip, no other kind of indication that an attachment exists, nothing. I've enjoyed it until I realized that I couldn't see attachments.
I wasn't using the Mail app before the upgrade, but since other Windows 10 apps were working so well I decided to give it another chance. Select Internet properties from the search results and click the Connections tab.I have an HP Pavilion x360, recently upgraded to Windows 10 Creators Update.
Click the search button on the Windows 10 taskbar, and search for ‘internet options’.Ģ. So you should try disabling the proxy server. If you’ve set up a web browser proxy, this might be causing the issue with Gmail can’t send emails with attachments. After that, open Gmail in another browser and then attach the file to an email. Sometimes you may find that Gmail file attachment works fine in an alternative browser. If on one browser, your Gmail is showing the said error, you may also consider switching the browser to see if that resolves the issue. On Chrome, you can check it by typing the “Chrome://help” in the address bar. Now, make sure you have the latest version of the web browser.ĭepending on your web browser, you can check for updates either directly in the browser or by visiting the developer website. First of all, you should know that Gmail is supported only on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge browsers. The next thing you should check, if your Gmail can’t send attachments, is your web browser. You can also send the sharable link to the recipients from your Google Drive and give access to them.Īlso, read | Can’t Open a File in Gmail? 3 Ways to Fix ‘Access Denied’ in Google Drive Issue 2. Normally, you can easily add attachments to an email but if it creates a Google dive link, it will be sent as a text in the body. But that 25 MB limit is based on the actual size of your email message not the size of the file on your disk. But when it comes to uploading files and sending an email, the upper limit is 25 MB. That means you can accept emails from other people of up to 50 MB. If you want to send more than 25 MB, Gmail will automatically create a Google Drive link for this instead of including it as an attachment. The Gmail attachment size limit for incoming emails is 50 MB. To be noted, you can send up to 25 MB files as attachments on Gmail whether it’s a single file or multiple files. Check Attachment size limitįirst of all, you should check the size of the attachment you are trying to send. Here we have listed some ways to fix these issues. There may be a number of reasons for emails not sending with attachments including attachment size, browser or extension issue, or some network issue.