Cannot Save an iPhoto attachment in Mail

I receive an email with a photo. I use Apple Mail pgm. Near the top of the email there is a pull down Save menu with an option to save that photo to iPhoto.
Unfortunately it has not worked since I installed Mountain Lion months ago. Am i doing something wrong? Does the feature no longer work? Too Frustrating.

It is not working - there are several work arounds discussed in different threads on this forum
One sure one is to drag the photos to the iPhoto icon in the Dock to improt them
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In addition to Terence's suggestion have you tried using the windows friendly attachments option in Mail?
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