Can't send attachments

It doesn't matter what format I try , it goes straight to an outbox with the error message"there was an error whe tring to connect to server will store until it can be sent."

I think I might be seeing the same problem. Until recently, I was able to send email with attachments through our exchange server 2003.
Something has changed. I'm no longer able to send email with attachments using Apple's Mail.app (2.0.5). Entourage and Thunderbird both work fine, but I'd rather not switch at this point.
I tried re-installing the mail app from the Tiger DVD and re-installing by grabbing packages out of OS X updates, but still no joy.
Emails work fine, emails with attachments get rejected by many, though not all mail servers out there as being badly formed.
From my SysAdmin:
Your mail is being rejected from their mailserver by the following reason given in the SMTP log:
451 See http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/smtplf.html.,
This is purely an issue with your mail client, as your mail client does not generate mail with proper carriage-returns. The link does not give suggestions on fixing this problem with your particular mail client. Is there an update or a change that you can make in your Mail program that could fix this. Otherwise you may have to use another mail client to send this message out.
Powerbook 17" G4 1.33, 2GB RAM, 80GB HD   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

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