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Because as far as the email protocol is concerned attachments are part of the body, just wrapped in a multipart MIME message along with text body.

But Gmail itself may handle attachments differently.



> But Gmail itself may handle attachments differently.

AFAIK, Gmail handles attachments the same.


When it sends them, yes, but this is more what I was referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7842868




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