Certain emails won't be 'forwarded as attachment'

My ISP asks for any spam, that their own systems have failed to pick up, to be forwarded as an attachment to them. There are quite a few spam messages that, when I try to forward, I get a message from Mail saying 'unable to send' and the option to pick another server from the list or try later.
This suggests that there is something in the spam message that causes this error condition to arise in Mail. Almost as if they have inserted a non-visible character that causes Mail to fall over.
The spam mail will forward OK but not 'forward as an attachment'. I have tried various combinations of the Attachment options (windows friendly etc) but no success.
Any suggestions?
Message was edited by: Roger Sinden

+This is the header from a Forward of a non-spam message (for consistency it was sent to the same recipient and using the same server)+
Subject: Fwd: Apple Discussions: Topic "Certain emails won't be 'forwarded as attachment'" in forum "Mail and Address Book" has been updated by Ernie Stamper
From: [email protected]
Date: 14 December 2007 17:39:49 GMT
To: [email protected]
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-1-303457285
X-Smtp-Server: mailhost.zen.co.uk
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v915)
References: <[email protected]1.managed.con tegix.com>
+This next one is the same message but Forwarded as an Attachment+
Subject: Fwd: Apple Discussions: Topic "Certain emails won't be 'forwarded as attachment'" in forum "Mail and Address Book" has been updated by Ernie Stamper
From: [email protected]
Date: 14 December 2007 17:40:09 GMT
To: [email protected]
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=Apple-Mail-2-303477337
X-Smtp-Server: mailhost.zen.co.uk
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v915)
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