Zip file attachments renamed to Mail Attachment since upgrading to SL

Does not appear to happen with jpeg files. This happens with both new emails that have .zip attachments and emails previously received. I can rename the file and add the .zip extension and get at its contents (Microsoft Access database file). Any ideas on how to stop this from happening? This did not occur before upgrading to Snow Leopard.

24" iMac early 2009, Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Sep 23, 2009 6:02 AM

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W4ZY Author

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Oct 8, 2009 10:46 AM in response to Matt Busfield

I spent 90 minutes on the phone with Apple without resolving the issue. I even sent myself emails with zip file attachments from Outlook Express from my PC and they came in fine. I did notice that the Apple Mail program is not recognizing the attachment as a zip file. When I looked at the emails I send from my PC and the ones I am having a problem with, the header (I might be using the wrong terminology) information looks different. Where there is a line that identifies the attachment in the good emails, this information is missing from the problem emails. I have not figured out yet why they are being treated differently. In the meantime, I just save the attachment and rename it and all is well. If I ever figure it out, I will post it here.

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Zip file attachments renamed to Mail Attachment since upgrading to SL

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