Mail opens as "mime-attachment"

Many times when I get emails, they arrive as a blank mail document with a "mime-attachment". It happens in Mail 3, Mail 2 and in both 10.4 and 10.5. I can open the mail in text-edit. Sometimes I can simply read the email, many times, I can see the references to websites and files. Obviously, this is not how it is meant to display.
Is there a setting or preference I'm missing?
Thanks folks

I'm having the same problem. It has nothing to do with incoming or outgoing attachments, or the incoming message having been forwarded. It happened with 2 incoming messages this morning. They were sent directly to me, not forwarded, and did not have attachments as such, (although they may have contained graphics--e.g., color, special fonts, little pictures). If I go to my webmail, I can read the text of the messages, but when they are downloaded to "Mail (2.1.2)", I see only "mime-attachment". The suggestion of one poster to add the extension .eml, then try to open, did not work for me. Is there no solution to this problem?
Thanks.

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