Mail automatically saving attachments

Hi there,
Can anyone help with this rather annoying feature? Every time I look at an attachement in Mail, it automatically saves a copy of it on my mac (currently desktop).
Is there any way to stop it doing this, as I don't want to save every attachment I get sent out of Mail?
Many thanks in advance!
Ben

Ben,
You cannot change this behavior, but the default should be the Mail Downloads folder, and in Mail Preferences/General you can choose to have any that are unedited removed after using Mail. This feature, which came in Tiger, is probably meant to allow you to edit an attachment, and return or send to others without a formal Save. In earlier versions of Mail, you could not save changes to attachments without saving elsewhere on your Mac.
The Desktop is not a good choice for this function.
If you choose the Mail Downloads folder, and further choose to remove any unedited Downloads when you quit Mail, you only need to quit Mail once, twice or more times a day to have all of them removed. I do this, and I am never even aware that I have downloaded anything, because if I wish to Save, I do so deliberately using other folders.
Of course any attachment that Views in Place does not download -- only those requiring the use of another application, such as Word.
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