Receiving attachment problems in Mail.app

I'm having a problem with attachments being received by Mail.app (version 3.3 on 10.5.4). Basically, the messages show that attachments are associated with the message, but they have zero size. I'm connecting to an IMAP server over SSL (uw-imapd on Debian). If I use Thunderbird on the same iMac the attachments are there just fine. This seems to be related to people sending mail from AOL.
Any suggestions on where I should look for a solution to the problem?

The icons are there at the bottom of the message. On mouse over they say "Not yet Downloaded". If I control-click the icon and select "Quick look" I get:
"Mail was unable to save the attachment “CIMG7512.JPG” to disk. Please verify your downloads folder exists and is writable."
Control-click/open results in nothing.
Attachments from other messages work fine, so the download folder exists and is writable.
There are 3 attachments. Header on first is:
-------------------------------1208029702--
--part2c27.34062a16.35326c62boundary
Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="CIMG7512.JPG"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="CIMG7512.JPG"

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