Mime attachments

[Peter Sealy]

I guess that this plagues everyone at some time or other. A PC wielding 
friend sends me emails with attachments I can not open. They are mime 
attachments. One is mime type-image/jpeg and another is mime type 
image/gif. I am using Apple's mail.app on OS X 10.2.6. I have tried 
Stuffit Expander, Graphic Converter and a few other graphic image apps 
. I have asked her to not send as a mime attachment but she just resent 
it as the image/gif. It is a letter type of communication which she has 
just dropped into her email and it is not an alternative to simply type 
out the letter in the email body. This is a person who does not know 
how to spell Apple let alone know how to communicate with one, other 
than simple email! And no, a solution is not to dump this very long 
standing friend of the family.
So, how can I open mime attachments? I have looked at the list archives 
but found nothing or was not searching correctly.
Thanks
.........

Peter Sealy
Thurgoona AUSTRALIA