How to disallow opening in-line attachments in Mail?

I have received some junk mail with an in-line attachment (therefore opened) which bears no relationship to the text of the junk; for example an image which no-one would find funny, beautiful etc. Suspicious. I'm thinking of a Word macro (perhaps now protected against by the OS), an image with some buried code, etc.
How can I instruct Mail to display attachments as a list of files which I can choose not to open?
Thanks

Mail>Preferences>View>uncheck Display remote images
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