[mdlug] Email Woes - Attachments with Outlook wonky, Same email in T-bird? No problem

[Robert Adkins II]

Maybe someone here has seen this.
 
Some emails with attachments sent to the boss' PC, running Windows 7 64-bit
and Outlook 2003, appear to have something weird going on with the MIMEType
and instead of displaying the message and then the attachement, the entire
email is displayed exactly as one would see if it they looked at the raw
file that represents the email in Vi on the IMAP store. Header information,
MIMEType information, the message body and then the "gibberish" characters
that is the attachment.
 
Open up the same exact email on the same computer with Thunderbird and the
email looks exactly as it should look in Outlook.
 
Forward that "badly formed" email via Outlook and it ends up looking the
same on a different seat of Outlook AND Thunderbird. At this time, it only
appears to happen with some emails that have attachments from a three
different sources. The vexing thing, is that sometimes these same sources
will send email wtih attachments and they work normally.
 
What I have been seeing is something to do with settings on the sending
Exchange Server, but two of these sources appear to be using something other
than Outlook/Exchange or are using  Exchange with different email clients.
One client uses Lotus Notes, but I'm unsure what their server is.
 
Any ideas? Is there any rules that can be tossed at incoming email with
attachments to "rewrite" them into following a fully standards compliant
format for the rare times when an email comes in with a borked MIMEtype?
 
Thanks,
Rob