Attachments not showing up in Mail...Thunderbird sees 'em fine

Had this issue in Tiger and it's has happened twice since I moved to Leopard. I have an imap account. Once in a while I'll get an email that should have an attachment (based on text of message) but nothing there. If I fire up Thunderbird and point it at same IMAP server, no problem...messages there and it shows attachment. Attachment downloads fine in Thunderbird. Also shows up in web-based interface to same iMAP account. Only Mail.app seems to not see the attachment.

This sounds like either the sender's or the recipient's (your) mail server is scrambling the attachments. This is becoming more and more common as ISPs try to scan for viruses and phishing attempts. If this is what is going of, it is very easy to detect. If you want, you can send one of these messages to me and I can tell you if my hypothesis is correct. Send the message to info at etresoft dot com and use the "Send Again" feature, not "Forward".

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To give you an example: My list view of emails show the email with the paper clip icon and "4 items", but only 3 items are visible from both the preview window and when I open the email.
I know there is a work around by selecting File > Save attachments, but come on that is not really a viable solution in an office setting when I receive 100-200 html emails with attachments, logos and other stuff on a daily basis.
Do any of you kind superusers found a usable solution for this problem that doesn't involve saving everything attached from the File menu?
Br,
Christian
And Apple... come on... you have got to be kidding with this #€#%!!! How can you be expected to be taken seriously as a productivity tool when something as simple as receiving attachments doesn't work. I feel like an idiot having purchased a MacBook Pro but still have to use Entourage because the most basic stuff isn't working as intended! (end of rant)

This sounds like either the sender's or the recipient's (your) mail server is scrambling the attachments. This is becoming more and more common as ISPs try to scan for viruses and phishing attempts. If this is what is going of, it is very easy to detect. If you want, you can send one of these messages to me and I can tell you if my hypothesis is correct. Send the message to info at etresoft dot com and use the "Send Again" feature, not "Forward".

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very annoying indeed - please can anyone help on this :-)

thanks for quick responce - but the problem lies with the recievers of MY mails - where the attachments is only inlaid and not showing as an attachment. The reciever then have problems opening attachments in i.e. Photoshop, and they cannot print the attachments directly from the mail..

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Dear Sir/Madam
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Dear All ,
Even I got annoyed due to this stupid thing ,
Let me share you how i worked around this ,
(1)Once you copied the table from Excel or Open office Calc, to thunderbird mail , It will appear the table with dotted line.
(2)Now you have to double click in any single cell it will prompt the ‘Table properties’ box .
(3)Now click on ‘Table ’ tab and under ‘Borders and Spacing’ Section set ‘Border’ ‘1’ instead of ‘0 ‘
That’s it ... it will show you the border lines of table copied from source file 

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drutil eject<hit return key>
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When I write an Apple Mail email and attach a jpg (for example),
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Hmm I thought this got sorted out in 10.8 but maybe not.
I asume you are in full screen, with the three column view?
If you change to classic you should see the attachment paper clip?
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Follow throught this thread:
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, lv_message varchar2, i_blob blob) IS
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      utl_smtp.write_data( l_conn, utl_tcp.crlf );
       utl_smtp.write_data( l_conn, utl_tcp.crlf );
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     utl_smtp.write_data( l_conn, 'Content-Type: text/plain;US-ASCII; name="' || l_attachment_name || '"' || utl_tcp.crlf );
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     utl_smtp.write_data( l_conn, 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64' || utl_tcp.crlf );
     utl_smtp.write_data( l_conn, utl_tcp.crlf );
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        l_len := dbms_lob.getlength(i_blob);
        while l_idx < l_len loop
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END;This is working, but the problem that i have is that the attachment differs depending on the mail client.
Using thunderbird i can see in the header of the mail that there is an attachment and when opening the message i can see the attached file, but when i send this to an gmail account the header doesn't show an attachment and the body of the mail contains a file 'noname'.
If i send multple attachments these are viewed correctly from thunderbird but the gmail account tends to show them as one 'noname' file which is the whole block of the email.
Teo

This is not a database issue, but probably more a question of correct MIME format.
I suggest in your gmail account to try to click "Show original" - that will show you the exact content of the MIME you are sending.
Verify that the MIME email is correctly built - it could be that Thunderbird is more "forgiving" and does not mind a little error.
If that does not find the issue, I suggest trying a forum of MIME/SMTP experts, not database experts ;-)

Attachments not showing in window (i.e. no paperclip icon)

I have seen this problem elsewhere on here, but not seen a solution so far. I'm on MobileMe emap - Apple Mail Version 3.5 (930.3).
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It looks like it has to download the attachment before it can display the paperclip? I've tried rebuilding the mailbox, but no joy.
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Sounds like the same issue. Along with this problem, I sometimes try to open an email and I get the message that it's not been downloaded to my email system (even on older emails) and it asks if you want to download it.
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