GMail Attachment Problems

Using GMail full time now ever since my personal mail account was devastated by the admins of my last hosting service. So, now I forward all my mail accounts to GMail and well, use it as my primary mail id. There are 2 problems that I face regularly. Though I personally detest HTML mails, but sometimes it becomes necessary to send mails with inline images. GMail obviously cannot do that, so I have to switch to a mail client for these occasions. The second one is a bigger one. GMail sometimes has problems displaying attached file names and even file types! Like this mail I got from a friend today:

This mail has 1 MS Excel spreadsheet and rest are all images. But I have no way of identifying what is what! The headaches of using a service under beta I believe…

Update: Well, I do have a way to recognize the Excel Sheet. The attachment with no view option is of course the Excel Sheet!

Update2: Now, this is funky. This mail was sent through Mozilla Thunderbird. The same mail sent through Opera M2 worked fine. Also, using IMAP on Mozilla Thunderbird can be a risky deal. I just told it to keep offline copies of the mails and the next thing I knew… The entire mail server Inbox folder as well as the local Inbox folder got cleaned up.

What the hell… I just wanted the mails to be available to me. I am now back to POP server on Opera M2. Thunderbird is simply not my cup of tea.

Update 3: Google knows about it!

When a message is forwarded as an attachment instead of as inline text, the file will show up as a text/plain attachment called “noname.” To open the forwarded message, click ‘View’ or ‘Download,’ just as you would for any other attachment.

Source: Why are my attachments called “noname?”