Mail app stopped downloading attachments

All of a sudden I can't open pdf, doc, etc. attachments in my mail app on either my iphone or ipad. This only occurs in the Mail app. I downloaded the gmail app to get around this, but it's inconvenient. The mail app is so much better - when it works!
Anyone else having this issue?
All it does when I click on the attachment is pretend to open, then stop... or it will just blip like it's launching, then stop.
This is so frustrating!

By the way, my Mail App is version 5.3

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