Incoming mail attachments are getting corrupted.

I have a MacBook Pro that I just bought about a week ago. Most current OS and everything is up to date. Using the default mail client, all incoming attachments are somehow corrupted. PDFs throw an error saying the document appears to be empty. Word documents open, but actually are empty. When I grab the mail attachments via the web client (GMail), they are fine. They also work fine on Thunderbird on my Windows netbook. Any ideas?

This support area is really for the MacBook Pro hardware. I would suggest you go to the Mail.app discussion where there are really good experts on your issues. I'm sure you'll get a fast answer there. Also, you might want to do a search of the communities for your problem. I see lots of hits for corrupted attachments, but since I don't know your exact problem, I can't tell you which has the best answer.

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