Mail attachments show up as code, not document

Hi all,
I've got one client, also using Mac Mail. When they send me attachments (zip files, psd's, etc) the attachment show up as code, not an attachment. If I open the same mail in gmail, it's an attachment. Other clients sending me attachments seem to work fine. Any ideas on a fix, either for me or my client?
Thanks

I am having this problem but it is not caused by spaces in name of attachment. It happens with attachments that have no spaces.
Contrary to theories in another thread, it is not caused by Outlook, either. I can send myself an email with an attachment and it comes back showing the encoded contents of the attachment (or just the contents if it's a text attachment) and raw mime-related text, such as:
--Apple-Mail-26-789943242
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=US-ASCII;
format=flowed;
delsp=yes
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Someone else blamed it on a corrupt preference. I have fixed it this way before but it came back pretty quickly. Was hoping for a more comprehensive fix or workaround.

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