Sender mail adapter sending xml attachment comes with .bin

Hi all,
I have the following scenario: Sender Mail >> RFC
As I can receive multiples attachments I´m using payload swap bean and adapter module to get all attachments together in the first attachment.
In most cases is working very well, but in some cases the xml attachment is coming as a ".bin".
The same mail with this wrong format, when it´s been forwarded, comes with the right xml file so I can figure that is the mail format sent by vendor.
I tried to simulate this error myself and I could observe that when I change the message format from html to plain text in my outlook I get the same error, the attachments comes as .bin
Does anyone know how can I receive those mails in the right format?
Thanks for your help!
Vanessa

Hi Ravi, thanks for your help.
I have configured:
TRANSFORM > swap.keyName > Content-Disposition
TRANSFORM > swap.keyName > Content-Description
TRANSFORM > swap.keyName > attachment;filename="MailAttachment-1.xml"
TRANSFORM > swap.keyName > MailAttachment-1
When the mail comes as html format is working fine, but not working when comes as plain text.
Any Idea?
Regards
Vanessa
Edited by: Vanessa Balsanelli Zocaratto on Nov 25, 2009 5:10 PM

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3. Can we use masks in the PayloadSwapBean for attachment names like "." as we don't know what the file name is going to be as we have multiple partners who will be sending emails to the same address and with different file formats.
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Hi,
>>>>Question 1 - do we have to define our data type as "Mail" under the namespace "http://sap.com/xi/XI/Mail/30".
do exactly as shown in my blog:
/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2005/03/07/mail-adapter-xi--how-to-implement-dynamic-mail-address
>>>>2. Also the PayloadSwapBean doesn't seem to swap the payload to be the attachment.
do similarly as shown in my blog:
/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2005/12/18/xi-sender-mail-adapter--payloadswapbean--step-by-step
the everything will work
Regards,
michal
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