14 DAY TRIAL // It has been revealed that Leopard users trying to save their e-mails in RTF are not getting very satisfying results, especially when Mail has to deal with attachments. While Tiger users have it their way, Mac owners running even the latest version of OS X Leopard (10.5.5) are still experiencing these issues.
It seems Apple wasn't aware of this bug when releasing build after build of the 10.5.5 update to Leopard. While users started reporting this issue prior to Apple's testing of 10.5.5, the company apparently didn't hear about the bug, and left it untouched in the newest version of Leopard, released just this week.
According to Mac OS X Hints' jce, who claim their findings should be viewed as a “warning to all users saving their emails from Mail in Rich Text Format,” even if users check the Include Attachments box, Leopard's Mail.app omits the attachments in the RTFD package. The same story doesn't apply in Tiger, though. Everything is just dandy in Apple's 10.4 version of the Mac OS.
User robg confirmed to the site focused on tips and tricks for Mac OS X users that Apple failed to patch this bug in the latest incarnation of OS X Leopard, version 10.5.5. The latest maintenance and security update to Leopard was issued September 15th, 2008 (three days ago).
“I verified that this problem still exists in the just-released OS X 10.5.5 update, and it does,” says robg. “I also found it's true of exports set to use Plain Text mode. The only way to export with attachments, it seems, is to use Original Format mode,” he claims.
Apple is likely to include a fix to this problem with the next maintenance update to Leopard users (10.5.6), shouldn't other kinds of updates be hitting from the Cupertino labs.