HT5361 Apple Mail looses attachment when forward rule is applied

Hi,
Seems Mail does not include the attachment with the rule: "forward mail". It happens with pop, imap regardless the attachment size or type.
After making a small research i found that this problem is not so new. I found articles back from 2005.
Could you pls provide some support on this?
thanks,
Greg

Care to share which OS version you are using?
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