Since the release of the PowerMail 5 betas, I have not been able to read the PDF newsletter I receive by e-mail. The symptoms are
1) the attchment name is newsletter.pdf 2) the attachment displays a Preview icon rather than an Acrobat icon (and I know it was created in a Macintosh environment using Acrobat) 3) both Preview and Acrobat say the file may be corrupt. The solution I found is to use the PowerMail contextual menu to reveal the attachment in the Finder, then use the Finder's contextual menu to open the "pdf" with StuffIt Expander. StuffIt ignores metadata, extensions, and everything else, and just reads the file and figures out what it has to do. I believe that the problem is that the message I receive is MIME- formatted and the attachment is actually compressed with StuffIt, but something is preventing PowerMail from recognizing that. Messages received from this source prior to my switching to PowerMail 5 betas shows an attachment named newsletter.pdf.sit, but those received after the switch just show newsletter.pdf.
