Attachments

The attachments of a message appear in the reading pane above the text. Many file types can be viewed directly in the app without downloading them; all others are downloaded. How to attach files to your own message is described in Writing an email.

If a message has attachments, the heading Ein Anhang (One attachment) or 2 Anhänge (2 attachments) appears above the text, with one card per attachment below it. In the message list, a paper clip indicates that a message has attachments.

Each card shows:

• Icon by file type: PDF, text documents (.doc/.docx), spreadsheets (.xls/.xlsx), presentations (.ppt/.pptx), image, ZIP archive, text, CSV, email; all other types with a paper clip.
• File name (without a name: "Anhang" (Attachment)).
• Size in B, KB, MB or GB.
• Herunterladen (Download) (down arrow) on the right: downloads the file.

The tooltip of the card names the name and size and what a click does: "— Klick: Vorschau" (— click: preview) or "— Klick: herunterladen" (— click: download).

All attachments of the open message are also shown by the "Anhänge" (Attachments) widget in the widget column, see Widget column and Team. There is no button to download all attachments at once or as a ZIP archive.

1. Click the attachment's card. By keyboard: move to the card with Tab and press Enter or Space.
2. If the file type is suitable for preview, the preview opens over the app. While loading, it shows "Vorschau wird geladen …" (Loading preview …).
3. If the type is not suitable, the file is downloaded immediately instead.
4. Close with Schließen (Close) (×) at the top right, with Esc or by clicking the darkened background.

The header of the preview shows:

• Type icon, file name and size.
• For PDF files, the page indicator: "1 Seite" (1 page) or "Seite 1 von 2" (Page 1 of 2); it follows the visible page as you scroll.
• Herunterladen (Download): downloads the file.
• Schließen (Close) (×).

• Images (PNG, JPG, JPEG, GIF, WebP, BMP): the image at full width.
• PDF: all pages one below the other for scrolling. The preview offers no zooming, searching or printing; download the file for that.
• Text documents in .docx format: as text with headings, lists, tables and images. The older .doc format is downloaded.
• Text files (TXT, CSV, LOG, MD, ICS, VCF): as plain text, at most the first 200,000 characters. Calendar invitations (.ics) and business cards (.vcf) therefore appear only as text.
• All other types, for example spreadsheets (.xlsx), presentations (.pptx), ZIP archives or attached emails (.eml): no preview; the file is downloaded immediately.

If a file cannot be displayed, the preview shows "Etwas ist schiefgelaufen" (Something went wrong) with the hint "Die Vorschau ließ sich nicht anzeigen. Über „Herunterladen“ lässt sich die Datei öffnen." (The preview could not be displayed. The file can be opened via "Download".)

1. On the attachment's card, choose Herunterladen (Download), or in the open preview Herunterladen at the top right.
2. The browser saves the file under its original name in the downloads folder or asks for the location, depending on the browser setting.

The following applies:

• The file is saved under the attachment's name; without a name it is called "anhang".
• Files that could become active in the browser (HTML, SVG, JavaScript, XML) are only saved as a file and not opened in the browser.

• An attachment can be downloaded up to 50 MB. If it is larger, the notice "Anhang" (Attachment) appears with the text "Der Anhang ist zu groß zum Herunterladen." (The attachment is too large to download.)
• When writing, attaching your own files is also limited to at most 50 MB per file, see Writing an email.

• Reading messages
• Sender check and external images
• Writing an email
• Widget column and Team