Email attachment not included in forwarded message - no error message given

Question

A coworker of mine was trying to forward a large 25.6MB pdf over the AT&T network.  She downloaded entire message before hitting forward and selected "include attachments" when given the option.  She could see the icon for the attachment at the bottom of the forwarded message, but the recipient doesn't receive the attachment and it is not reflected in the sent email.  There is no warning or error message given.  She could forward this from her desktop account, so it doesn't seem to be a server based limit on attachments..
This is an exchange server email account and an iphone 5.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

I too am experiencing this behavior, however, for some reason that I do not know, the attachments appear ok one day and then they appear embedded. This is becoming detrimental to my work!
Is anyone looking into this at Apple?
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--Boundary(IDD652jjiT9bsdspgfbLeNSA)
Content-type: application/msword; name=vzw-swd-mmsc.doc
Content-transfer-encoding: BASE64
Content-disposition: attachment; filename=vzw-swd-mmsc.doc
0M8R4KGxGuEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPgADAP7/CQAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAA
PAAAAAAAAAAAEAAAPgAAAAEAAAD+////AAAAADsAAAD/////////////////////
///////////////////////////////////////////spcEAMyAJBAAA8BK/AAAA
AAAAEAAAAAAABAAAhCIAAA4AYmpiamSiZKIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJBBYA
An e-mail message with a Word-attachment that was
sent by forwarding was not interpreted correctly by
Mail. The attachment is shown as inline undecoded
data:
--------------060401070608000609090303
Content-Type: application/msword;
name="linuxhandleiding.doc"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename="linuxhandleiding.doc"
0M8R4KGxGuEA(...)
To reproduce this, I sent an e-mail with a Word
attachment to my own address, using Thunderbird on a
Linux machine. After that, I forwarded the received
message with the attachment again to my own address.
In Thunderbird, the forwarded message shows the
attachment correctly, but in Apple Mail (2.1), that I
use with the same e-mail account (IMAP), the original
message shows the attachment correctly, but in the
forwarded message it appears undecoded in the message
body (see above).
I searched the forum and found similar issues, but
not exactly what happens here. Also, no solutions
provided helped me to solve this problem. Any
ideas?
iBook G4 / Mac
mini G4   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   Mail
2.1
PowerBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.7)