Mail pdf attachments gibberish

Suddenly Mail downloads pdf attachments as a mile of gibberish and not a separate file as it used to. Why? What can I do? Can anybody help?
In webmail the are ok so the problem must by with Mail.

I have the same problems ever since I started Mac'ing 2 years ago. My guess is that Mac Mail is not able to interpret old versions of pdf even though Preview is. Simple solution is to install:
http://lokiware.info/Mail-Attachments-Iconizer
I don't understand, why Apple isn't including this as a standard preference option.

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