IPhone Gmail IMAP and Document Attachments

Hi, first post....
I've recently set up my iPhone's mail app for Gmail IMAP which is great apart from the fact that Word.doc attachments now appear inline with the text of the email complete with lots of garbled letters and numbers, rather than as the neat attachments I received when using Gmail with POP. Strange because it seems to work OK for photos.
I was wondering if anyone else was experiencing this issue, whether this is a feature of the way IMAP works, or whether there is some setting in Gmail or in mail on the iPhone that I am overlooking which might solve the issue.
Any help would wonderful

So to start to answer my own question, this seems to only be a problem when sending mail from the Mac mail client to iPhone mail client via Gmail, with other services (web mail, outlook) there isn't a problem!
However it does seem to be a Mac mail client wide issue (10.4.11) since sending from my Mac to iPhone using a different account (not Gmail) yields the same result

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Many thanks for your reply - and I think that I understand what you are saying; however the GMail system does allow me to send a message using another "reply to" address so long as I have authenticated that email address within GMail first. I've been through that process, and I can send a message which appears to be from my normal ISP's address but in reality is sent through GMail (what some might refer to as using a spoofed address?) - but I can't do this from my iPhone.
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So to start to answer my own question, this seems to only be a problem when sending mail from the Mac mail client to iPhone mail client via Gmail, with other services (web mail, outlook) there isn't a problem!
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Not exactly. What I am saying is that your BB reconciles against your email Server. Your PC client as well reconciles against your email Server. The BB and the PC client do not reconcile against each other OTA -- the Server is always in the middle. What the BB will reconcile (against the server) is governed by the KB I linked you to. What your PC client will do is whatever it will do (I've no idea what your PC client is nor what it's capabilities are to reconcile things against your email server).
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