Mail Is Only a "MIME Attachment"

I'm away from home trying to get by on an iPod touch standing in for a laptop. One e-mail I received, forwarded (at least) by one AOL user, consists of nothing but a "mime-attachment". I believe I've seen similar things in e-mail on Mail for OS X, but in that environment I've always been able to double-click on that item to open it. So far I haven't had any luck on the iPod touch. I can call up options of "Save Image", "Copy", and "Cancel", but those don't seen to cause any useful results. Is there a solution, or am I stuck until I return home? Thanks for any advice.

William Boyd, Jr. wrote:
I suppose it's possible that iPhone OS 4 could change this, if I'm allowed a bit of speculation.
i seem to remember to have read OS 4 will probably bring that change, macrumors.com or so.
later ...
JGG

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Begin forwarded message:
From: Brian <[email protected]>
Date: June 5, 2007 8:43:01 AM EDT
To: Michael Wilson
Subject: weekend golfing
X-From_: [email protected] Tue Jun 5 08:43:04 2007
X-Spam-Flag: NO
X-Envelope-From: [email protected]
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from web83514.mail.sp1.yahoo.com (web83514.mail.sp1.yahoo.com [216.252.120.170]) by mail181.megamailservers.com (8.13.6.20060614/8.13.1) with SMTP id l55Ch2Mx020904 for <Michael Wilson>; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 08:43:03 -0400
Received: (qmail 6029 invoked by uid 60001); 5 Jun 2007 12:43:02 -0000
Received: from [207.124.150.253] by web83514.mail.sp1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:43:01 PDT
Domainkey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=sbcglobal.net; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-T ransfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=I1Aea/zn8b1UDki7ZSMQnpOfX6YPufbKfZqwD/2KirUma5lyz8rMFEe33x0jzYAmILiYsaZy39bS2UVtqYKJILR0JBtu1h0ke8rEQBU+B0SynYYOPVh3M2fv9xtT3llB3hC241D+Z lw5JLVXtrUBNlpMjdA0q3BjunOm6M/Mo=;
X-Ymail-Osg: BgpnTt0VM1mnCRiuhniWtuhm.p08QydIu37ID92Hr8Yy_o9MyVK3WSsHffBLmGfIDHBWgME2eQ--
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-817761768-1181047381=:5773"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
X-Antivirus: Scanned by F-Prot Antivirus (http://www.f-prot.com)
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We too have been receiving mime attachments at my office. I think I have narrowed it down to new, web-based e-mail messages. Just conducted a test from a client with whom we have had this problem. He sent several messages. The first two (a reply and a new message), from his PDA came through no problem. Next, a reply from his XP PC from his Yahoo webmail account, using IE (not sure of the version), also no problem. Fourth, a new message from his PC (Yahoo mail), which came in as a mime attachment. Finally from his yahoo account on his PC, he forwarded an e-mail he initially sent a colleague of mine which came in as a mime on my colleague's MBP, but the forward to me came in just fine.
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I've been having a persistent problem for some time now. When I'm out of the office, I have a rule set up to forward my mail to my Hotmail account, so that I receive an alert on my cell phone (Verizon). The mail arrives at Hotmail with a MIME attachment, making it unreadable on the phone thru the Hotmail web browser function.
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Hmmm... good suggestion. I do have signatures, but they're plain text.
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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!!!!
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Happened with pdf, gif, jpg files
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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.
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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--
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------=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"?=
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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"?=
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Idan.

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Some important recipients are unable to view attachments I send them b/c Mail, by default, sends UU-encoded attachements instead of MIME attachements.
Is there any way to configure Mail to send MIME attachements?
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I've taken the liberty of re-arranging your question for clarification.
Sarge_ wrote:
Some important recipients are unable to view attachments I send them b/c Mail, by default, sends UU-encoded attachements instead of MIME attachements.
I've read lots on these discussions from people trying to deal with READING MIME attachements that other people have sent them, but cannot find any info on switching the SENT preferences to use UU encoding for attachments instead of MIME.
Which one do you want to use? UU or MIME?
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2) Send Windows-friendly attachments. This will prevent Apple Mail from sending Macintosh-specific information in an e-mail message. In all cases, Apple Mail only sends standards-forming MIME e-mail messages, but many (all?) PC e-mail clients barf on this 100%-legal MIME e-mail message.
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