Attachments sent from Mail not received by recipient

Howdy...
When I send an attachment through Mail and my Gmail account, both Mail and Gmail say there are attachments that were sent, but when my recipient gets the email, there is no attachment there.... Ideas?

It sounds like you are using Rich Text Format, and are using at least two different fonts (with the Signature as a possible second font source). In this mode, the RTF is converted to HTML, and this is probably causing those who have the problem receiving in good order.
Compose and send in Plain Text to these people, see if it does do the trick?
Ernie

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