Attachments in Apple Mail + Exchange break the text of the mail

Question

Working with Apple Mail on an Exchange server account, I've recently noted that when I put an attachment in the body of an email, all further text is broken out into a separate email attachment... thereby getting ignored by the recipient.
This has been happening for a couple of weeks now - and is a significant bug from my point of view.
The same behaviour is NOT exhibited using my gmail account.
Any ideas how to fix it?

Answer 1

Sandlines,
I should have searched more. I found a posting that talks about this same subject with a method to get it to work. All I had to do was make the first word in the email bold and in-line attachments work the way they are supposed to work. This doesn't help incoming files but it does help make your emails readable.
Outlook has a tough time rendering an email correctly. If you want it to have all attachments inline (and the server doesn't strip out or prevent use of HTML messages), you can trick it to work. When you start a new message, change the font to something other than your default font. That will trigger Outlook into rendering it correctly.
Some people create a signature in the Font that they want to compose in, and then start the message in the first line of the signature. That will set the font tag for Outlook to understand.
If you want the recipients to actually be able to use the image attachments you send, make sure you set the message to Plain Text and put the attachments at the end. Otherwise, Outlook renders the images inline and it is nearly impossible to save them separate from the message.