Mail is corrupting attachments

Hi
Mail has started corrupting attachments in both sent and recieved emails. This affects jpegs, pdfs, zip files, etc although so far not word or text documents.
Its been a pain usually with me requesting that stuff be resent only to find it corrupted in a different way. My webmail checks out fine and I have even started entourage running to double check. Entourage works fine, for what it is.
So far as I am aware I haven't changed any settings, nor installed anything untoward.
Can I fix this, I'm not keen on switching email software.

APPLE TAKE NOTE OF THIS BUG, PLEASE.
This is a user to user help forum only and although certainly there are some Apple employees who peruse these Discussions, you are not providing anything to Apple directly here.
The Mail.app displays all image/photo and single page PDF attachments inline or viewed in place within the body of the message by default which cannot be turned off.
You can control-click on an inline or viewed in place attachment and select View as Icon but this has no effect on the attachment.
Depending on the recipient's email client and available preference settings, such attachments may appear inline or viewed in place within the body of the message when the message is opened (as with the Mail.app when receiving such attachments) or as attached files only which must be opened separately to be viewed which the sender has no control over.
The same in reverse. Windows Outlook and Outlook Express sends image/photo and single page PDF attachments as attached files only (not displayed inline or viewed in place) but when received and opened by a Mail.app user, such attachments appear inline or viewed in place within the body of the message along with the attached files available below the message header which can be saved outside of the message.
The Image Size adjustment included with Tiger Mail should be used with image/photo attachments only and not with single page PDF attachments that appear inline or viewed in place. When used with single page PDF attachments, the file type is converted to jpg since this is what the Image Size adjustment is for - for images only.
What needs to be changed is not providing the Image Size adjustment when attaching a single page PDF file.

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Hi
I know this has been posted many times in the past, but I have found that anyone has had the problem resolved, so I thought I'd make another post.
Basically it goes like this... Almost all attachments sent or received by Mail corrupt. Some badly so they will not open, some not so bad, so they are illegible or appear fragmented.
The attachments are fine when downloaded directly from my webmail, or when I use another application such as Entourage (I'd rather not switch applications, I like Mail and its free).
As I keep my emails stored on my server for a week or so I have been able to create another user and try downloading the same emails through here again in Mail. The attachments still corrupt, but not in the same way, some that were corrupted aren't and vise versa.
It strikes me that this is a problem with the application itself, but will a reinstall help, or is it likely to be a system issue somehow?

Hi Ayman
Thanks for replying. This has unfortunately not worked for me. The problem has been a proper and thorough corruption. All attachments would corrupt going in and out. Receivers would complain of unrecognisable formats. And received messages would become scrambled.
To confuse things, If I If I reinstalled as a new user and downloaded everything again JPEG attachments would corrupt but in a different way.
Any way, to cut a long story short we opted to send the Mac in question off to some teccy guys, who scratched their heads for a few days. The problem has been identified as a faulty hard drive. Although the hardware test showed no error, the problem mysteriously vanished with the addition of a replacement drive.

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Hi,
I'm using Mail.app to connect to our local IMAP server (over SSL). For a long while, I've had problems with large attachments being corrupted when I open a message in Mail. If I view the same message in our webmail client (which also talks to the IMAP server), the attachments are uncorrupted.
If I save a message as source and decode using a mime64 decoding tool, the attachments are corrupted in the same way as from within mail. This is most clearly visible when the attachment is a large jpeg.
If I remove the locally cached messages by deleting the /Library/Mail/IMAP-xxxxx folder, then re-download all the messages, the attachments will be often corrupted in a different position in the image.
Using another IMAP mail client (Thunderbird) on the same machine to connect to the same IMAP server shows no corruption in the same messages which are corrupted in Mail.app.
I can't say whether this problem was introduced with Tiger, but it has persisted for a long time. This problem is only for INCOMING attachments; I have had no problems with corruption in the attachments I send to others.
Other Tiger Mail.app users in the building have the same issue. Any suggestions to identify and fix this problem will be greatly appreciated. It's possible it's bug in Mail, and I would be happy to contribute any information or perform any testing required to fix it.
Using:
Mail.app v2.1 (752/752.2)
Thunderbird v1.5.0.7 (20060909)
Mac OS X 10.4.8 Build 8L127
1 Ghz Powerbook G4 with 1.25 GB RAM
Best regards,
Dylan
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

The right way of doing that would be rebuilding the
mailbox, i.e. select it and do Mailbox >
Rebuild. Does that make a difference?
Rebuilding the mailbox — no difference. The attachments are corrupted at a different position in the image, but still corrupted.
Another thing to try would be trashing the Mail
cache, i.e., quit Mail, in the Finder go to
Trashing the Mail Cache — no difference. The attachments are not re-downloaded from the server, and so the position of the corruption in the image doesn't change.
What happens if you move or copy the message to a
local "On My Mac" mailbox, and open the local copy
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The local copy then has corrupted attachments.
/Library/StartupItems/
Empty.
/Library/InputManagers/
SIMBL
~/Library/InputManagers/
Empty.
/Library/Mail/Bundles/
Empty.
~/Library/Mail/Bundles/
GPGMail
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there?
LittleSnitchDaemon
iCalAlarmScheduler
iCal
Mail
SmartReporter
LiteSwitchX
MicrosoftMouseHelper
MouseLocatorAgent
Skype
Last.fm
Renicer
The items below the line have been added recently, and the problem was definitely there before hand.
Dylan.
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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