Email attachments are converted to HTML

I have a G4 ibook I rarely use and a G5 that I use daily both have recently begun to automatically download and convert all email attachments to .html, which when opened are gibberish.
What can I do to fix this?
When and if I can get Explorer to open I dont have this problem.

comments?
Firefox and IE simply ignore the MIME part (it's probably more complicated than that - I'd guess they have a list of 'known' file extension types they trust over what the webserver claims for them, and then fall back to the MIME type specified for more esoteric ones).
Safari changed sometime around 1.2 -> 1.3 to use the MIME types more. Why? I have no idea, but I'm pretty sure that's the cause.
If you have a URL to one of your attachments in the webmail site, try typing this in the Terminal:
curl -I [your URL]
In the output, the MIME type is indicated by the 'Content-Type: xxxxxx/yyyyyy' entry.

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