they've never been account wide. To answer the OPs question, you can't retrieve attachments from the minimap inbox button, to retrieve those you have to go to a mail terminal at a starbase.

We know that. The concern though is that we've never been told that ingame. It's always been via word of mouth with other players.

I thought if you hovered your mouse over the greyed-out "Take Items" button it tells you to get to a terminal?

Aww, geez, can't they just, uhh, MAIL FORWARD the items to me and make the items reclaimable EVERYwhere? *Sigh* I still think it's silly you can't claim items from the MAIL you can read everywhere. I mean, don't they have mail forwarding or interstellar FedEx in the future? Sheesh. Why make the interface more complicated than it needs to be? Why not just have the same mail interface/behavior EVERYwhere? I mean, it seems to me that it also means that when there is a mail bug to fix they've have to code the fix in BOTH places in the game? Unless they use the same code functions & just disable part of it selectively?

~MG

And it's still just as silly a design decision as it was on day 1 when they rolled it out...

Why can't we have a little interface consistency? Why do we need one mail station to behave DIFFERENTLY than another mail station? *Sigh* It's stupid little inconsistent design decisions that tend to annoy players (reality doesn't match expected functionality).

~MG