Mime-attachment problems on iOS 6.1.3

Hello all,
I have a problem with multiple iPads running iOS 6.1.3. that I can reproduce every time, and would like to verify whether anyone else can confirm that behavior.
Environment:
- Apple iPad 4th Generation, Wi-Fi, 32 GB
- Apple iPad 4th Generation, Wi-Fi + 3G, 64 GB
- both iPads run iOS 6.1.3
- open Outlook 2013 on local PC, select any two e-mails and click forward (those two e-mails will be added as attachments to new message ... extension .eml).
- add another attachment (e.g. pdf file) to that new message and send it to e-mail address of account that you configured in your iPad Mail app.
- open received e-mail through your iPad Mail app. Click "Download full message". When download completes, open "mime-attachment". Mail app crashes / closes.
What I've tried:
- turn on/off iPad (soft/hard (restart))
- removed e-mail account from iPad and added e-mail account again
- turned off all running applications, started Mail app ...
Multiple iPhones running iOS 6.1.3 successfully display "mime-attachment" from e-mails created in described way.
Thanks, MS

Additional info:
I've installed iPhone configuration utility and collected console log of crash ...
Aug 30 19:00:57 IT1 MobileMail[629] <Warning>: Autoselection cancelled for message 515
Aug 30 19:00:59 IT1 kernel[0] <Debug>: launchd[651] Builtin profile: syncdefaultsd (sandbox)
Aug 30 19:01:02 IT1 lockdownd[46] <Notice>: 01584000 _receive_message: walk away - non-SSL 1
Aug 30 19:01:03 IT1 MobileMail[629] <Error>: *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** setObjectForKey: key cannot be nil'
*** First throw call stack:
(0x332183e7 0x3b0a2963 0x3317a5ef 0x162eb1 0x35112087 0x13feed 0x13ff37 0x8873cb3 0x35144c61 0x3510c3a1 0x352f9163 0x35030883 0x3502f2cd 0x3503a1e7 0x35039db3 0x350278e1 0x350271ef 0x36d1b5f7 0x36d1b227 0x331ed3e7 0x331ed38b 0x331ec20f 0x3315f23d 0x3315f0c9 0x36d1a33b 0x3507b2b9 0xfefdf 0x3b4cfb20)
Aug 30 19:01:04 IT1 ReportCrash[652] <Notice>: Formulating crash report for process MobileMail[629]
Aug 30 19:01:04 IT1 ReportCrash[652] <Error>: libMobileGestalt copySystemVersionDictionaryValue: Could not lookup ReleaseType from system version dictionary
Aug 30 19:01:04 IT1 ReportCrash[652] <Notice>: Saved crashreport to /var/mobile/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MobileMail_2013-08-30-190103_IT1.plist using uid: 0 gid: 0, synthetic_euid: 501 egid: 0
Thanks, MS

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