MIME Attachments Weirdness

A co-worker sent a Quicktime move to 3 of us at mail.ourcompany.com and 2 others outside of our domain.
The 3 of us received the movie just fine, the 2 of them got MIME attachments that they couldn't read.
1 of them actually had an email address at ourcompany.com so it was resent to that address and worked just fine. Note that this user has both accounts on the same computer, but the attachment only arrived intact on his work inbox and not his personal inbox.
The other one was resent using a Gmail account from a web browser and it worked that time.
Why is Mail recognizing some MIME attachments and not others?

Hi,
Try an IE user agent.
From your Safari menu bar click Safari / Preferences then select the Advanced tab. Enable the develop bar.
Now from the menu bar again click Develope / User Agent. Try IE 8, 7, or 6.
Microsoft/Hotmail are not Mac friendly.
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