Mail attachments as MIME-attachment unreadable!!!

I've been using Entourage for a long time and it works ok
I have a gmail account
Now I'm trying to synchronize my mail with an IMAP account in Apple Mail app.
The problem is that some of the attachments now appear as "MIME-attachment" and they are unreadable!!!!
I go to www.gmail.com, check the same message and there it is!: the attachment as it should be! and I can open it right away.
Happened with pdf, gif, jpg files
Please help

Hello,
I think I've found the problem... but not the solution
I did a simple test.
Took a PDF and sent it via Gmail Webmail to myself.
Testing both UTF-8 sending formatting ON and OFF (via Gmail settings) -- Has no affect.
The problem was pinned while renaming the attachment. If the attachment is in English or numbers, you will see it as normal.
If the attachment is NOT in English or numbers Gmail will transform it to UTF-8 and Apple Mail doesn't seem to know how to handle it.
Here are the results.
Test1: File name is 09879.pdf
------=Part_2220323867308.1197303123110
Content-Type: application/pdf; name=09879.pdf
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
X-Attachment-Id: f_fa17cq7a0
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=09879.pdf
------=Part_2220323867308.1197303123110--
Test2: I renamed the file to contain NON-English charecters, in my case Hebrew
------=Part_2221813473114.1197303418627
Content-Type: =?UTF-8?Q?application/pdf;_name=3D?=
=?UTF-8?Q?"=D7=93=D7=9F-=D7=A4=D7=AA=D7=A8=D7=95=D7=A0=D7=95=D7=AA?=
=?UTF-8?Q?_=D7=95=D7=A9=D7=90=D7=9C=D7=95=D7=AA.pdf"?=
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
X-Attachment-Id: f_fa17iz8l0
Content-Disposition: =?UTF-8?Q?attachment;_filename=3D"?=
=?UTF-8?Q?=D7=93=D7=9F-=D7=A4=D7=AA=D7=A8=D7=95=D7=A0=D7=95=D7=AA_?=
=?UTF-8?Q?=D7=95=D7=A9=D7=90=D7=9C=D7=95=D7=AA.pdf"?=
------=Part_2221813473114.1197303418627--
As you can see, here relies the problem. If Only Mail.app add the file extension from the Content-Type and we're all set.
In the meanwhile, if you want to know the file type just go to 'View --> Message --> Raw Source'
and search for 'Content-Type' a few times or 'application'
Does anyone here have an idea of solving this issue ?
Idan.

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