Mail Cannot save attachments in Raw Message Source

When I try to save email as Raw Message Source, Include Attachments is grayed out. It is not grayed out when I choose rtf or plain text files. How come?

Thank you.
I saved the email as Raw in a folder on my desktop, then went to file-import mailbox in mail, and tried to import it. I got a message that it saved to an import folder in the mailbox list, but there is no such file. I tried making an Import folder and import it again, but it did not work.
Then I tried saving as Plain Text and Rich Text Format. I got an error that No valid Mail for Mac OS X files were found.
I have SpamSieve, could that be a problem?

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