PDF arrives is gibberish rather than an attachment

What makes a PDF arrive not as a file but many lines of gibberish? Below are lines right before the gibberish. Thanks
--Apple-Mail-5--14516743
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Type: application/pdf;
x-mac-type=50444620;
x-unix-mode=0644;
x-mac-creator=4341524F;
name="April2006PEEL.pdf"
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename=April2006PEEL.pdf

This is what my PDFs look like also that bomb out. Most are good, but some do what you show. Although I have AOL, looks like it is a problem through a corporate system also. thanks, ralph
This is an example of a message: Of course the hex
codes continue.
This is a multi-part message in MIME format
---------861f667a861f667a
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary=-------87282efa87282efa
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