Received photos showing up as ?

When receiving photos from one friend they show up as ? marks, but the attachments are there and I can see them with "quickview". When I look at the mail from my phone I see the photos, likewise if I use Thunderbird. I tried under another user but same thing. It only happens from this one friend, all others that send photos show up ok.
An interesting thing. I forwarded them to myself. This time when I opened up the forwarded mail in Thunderbird they show up with ? marks, but the attachments are there. Any ideas?

This would not appear to be a true attachment header, but rather where an image, perhaps in a HTML text message has been converted by Outlook to be a JPEG -- image001 is a generated name, rather than a name under which it would have been filed before attaching, I am pretty sure. A normal header for a JPEG file would look like:
Content-Type: image/jpeg;
name="DSC04954.jpg"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="DSC04954.jpg"
If you need to test a normal message with JPEGs attached, you can email me -- click on my name and look in the bio line of my resulting Profile.
Ernie

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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: multipart/related;
type="text/html";
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charset=utf-8
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Sent from my iPad
<br=
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From:=
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skoella@EDITOUT>
D=
ate: April 2, 2011 10:53:08 PM EDT
To: jak@
Subject: really a pic this time
<b=
r>
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hokay
<blockquote type=3D=
"cite">
</di=
v>
Sherry<=
/span>
WARNING: currently under construction by my Lord and Savior J=
esus Christ
<s=
pan>
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filename="19 pr.jpg"
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Content-Type: image/jpeg;
x-unix-mode=0644;
name="19 pr.jpg"
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KCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCj/wAARCAHgAlgDASIA
AhEBAxEB/8QAHAAAAgIDAQEAAAAAAAAAAAAABAUDBgECBwAI/8QATRAAAgEDAwEGBAQDBgMGBQAL
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How can I receive photos in Apple Mail from a PC user who says photos have been either attached or embedded in email? There is no evidence in his email of an attachment. Any guidance for me or that I can offer him would be appreciated. Thanks.
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