Cannot attach attachments in mail - Leopard

Hi there,
I get a weird behaviour of mail app. I upgraded from Tiger to Leopard 4 days ago. Until today everything worked as supposed. Suddenly today, without any user-change mail simply stopped adding attachments to new emails. Connection is OK, receiving attachments ok, sending empty emails also OK.
I have installed update 10.5.1, but it did not help...
Anyone experiencing the same problem? Could anyone help, please
Regards
Ondrej

Hello and welcome to the Discussions.
Click on Edit before trying to attach a file, place cursor on Attachments, and deselect the option to Always Insert Attachments at the End of the Message. Now try to attach. Let us know if this alters the behavior? I am chasing a better definition on this behavior, but I can experience the problem you are having depending upon whether this new feature is selected.
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