Mime attachments in mail

Whenever I receive emails from questions or invoices from Ebay in Mail OS10.4.7 they come as mime attachments which can't be viewed in the message unless I open them with another app like text edit . Is there something in Mail to set up to view these ? I couldn't find anything and don't believe I had this problem in Panther with ebay messages. Mail viewing preferences is set up to view HTML. Text encoding is set to automatic. Is there anything I'm missing? This doen't seem to be an Ebay problem since when I go to my webmail account the HTML message views fine there. This has been very frustrating for me as I use ebay a fair amount.
thanks, Craig
G5 Dual 2.5GHZ, 15 TiBook 1GHZ, I.25 dual G4 MDD, 15G ipod, Beige G3/500GHZ Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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Mime attachments in Mail from two mac users

I've been receiving mime attachments in Tiger Mail from Ebay and members for a while and I've searched the forum for answers but haven't found a viable solution yet. I end up using TextEdit to open them. I've contacted ebay about this and they have no clue, and think it's spam even though I tell them I get them from Ebay tech support, however they do show up ok in my RCN webmail when I check there.
Anyway that's not the problem now, I was trying to troubleshoot my father's mail problem who is Panther Mail and it mysteriously stopped working for him a couple days ago both sending and receiving. However he is getting them from his webmail at SBC/Yahoo formerly Ameritech. I checked his account settings over the phone and they seemed correct to what he had before but I had him contact his provider.
They don't seem to know what's going on and wanted him to contact Apple.I had him contact them again and they finally did have him change his outgoing mail server from Ameritech to SBC/Yahoo. So he is able to send from there now but not receive emails. ( he still still sends and receives ok at his webmail site) . Since they changed the outgoing mail server however, the email he sends me (all plain text) is coming now as a mime attachment.
I've never seen this before from two Mac users using Mail and plain messages. I had him try changing back to the Ameritech outgoing sever but that still doesn't work. And again if I check my RCN webmail I can view these messages fine in the body of the email there, just not in Mail. Any ideas what may have caused this? Is it because of the Yahoo outgoing mail server? He's about givin up and has resorted to his webmail only for now. I generally like Mail but this is a pia.
Craig
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<Where is it designated as a "mime-attachment" & where does the "27bytes" text appear?>
It shows mime-attachment(27bytes) just below the little plain document icon. This shows up both in the body of the email and also the little attachment drop down menu below the To / subject area.
<Also, if you go to Mail's View > Message submenu when one of these messages is open, which (if any) 'alternate' menu choices are available (not grayed out)? >
All are greyed out except Long headers and Raw source.
Here is the header info in the message if that helps any:
From: [email protected]
Subject: test
Date: December 27, 2006 10:49:27 PM EST
To: [email protected]
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from mr05.lnh.mail.rcn.net (EHLO mr05.lnh.mail.rcn.net) ([207.172.157.25]) by ms05.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.7.5a-GA FastPath queued) with ESMTP id CYF54813; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:49:31 -0500 (EST)
Received: from mx06.lnh.mail.rcn.net (mx06.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.56]) by mr05.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.7.5a-GA) with ESMTP id MDY18691; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:49:30 -0500 (EST)
Received: from flpvm09.prodigy.net ([207.115.20.39]) by mx06.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 27 Dec 2006 22:49:29 -0500
Received: from [75.34.9.255] (adsl-75-34-9-255.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net [75.34.9.255]) by flpvm09.prodigy.net (8.13.8 out.dk.spool/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBS3nEOh005937 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:49:15 -0800
X-Orbl: [75.34.9.255]
Domainkey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=sbc01; d=ameritech.net; c=nofws; q=dns; h=mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:
Content-Type: to:from:subject:date:x-mailer; b=RT51cAASkaC4dXKPZSEOEdmv7ApKJ68xdvGgdP7ifDKDoI6j6EIr5dyZl7OrPcoww SjzfTr1nAxHOJGy0wzYeg==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624)
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.624)
X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=mr05.lnh.mail.rcn.net
X-Junkmail-Sd-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A090203.45933D44.001B,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=207.115.20.39, so=2006-05-09 23:27:51, dmn=5.2.121/2006-09-27
here is the raw source. The last line is what shows up in the mime attachment when it is opened in text edit or viewed at my webmail :
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from mr05.lnh.mail.rcn.net (EHLO mr05.lnh.mail.rcn.net) ([207.172.157.25])
by ms05.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.7.5a-GA FastPath queued)
with ESMTP id CYF54813;
Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:49:31 -0500 (EST)
Received: from mx06.lnh.mail.rcn.net (mx06.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.56])
by mr05.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.7.5a-GA)
with ESMTP id MDY18691;
Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:49:30 -0500 (EST)
Received: from flpvm09.prodigy.net ([207.115.20.39])
by mx06.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 27 Dec 2006 22:49:29 -0500
X-ORBL: [75.34.9.255]
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=sbc01; d=ameritech.net; c=nofws; q=dns;
h=mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:
content-type: to:from:subject:date:x-mailer;
b=RT51cAASkaC4dXKPZSEOEdmv7ApKJ68xdvGgdP7ifDKDoI6j6EIr5dyZl7OrPcoww
SjzfTr1nAxHOJGy0wzYeg==
Received: from [75.34.9.255] (adsl-75-34-9-255.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net [75.34.9.255])
by flpvm09.prodigy.net (8.13.8 out.dk.spool/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBS3nEOh005937
for <[email protected]>; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:49:15 -0800
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624)
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
To: Craig Hlady Hlady <[email protected]>
From: bohdan hlady <[email protected]>
Subject: test
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 21:49:27 -0600
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.624)
X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=mr05.lnh.mail.rcn.net
X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown,
refid=str=0001.0A090203.45933D44.001B,ss=1,fgs=0,
ip=207.115.20.39,
so=2006-05-09 23:27:51,
dmn=5.2.121/2006-09-27
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