🚀 go-pugleaf

I'm using VM-7.07 on emacs-21.2.3 and recently got a pdf attachment
that is bafflling me.  Here is my INBOX Summary,

  507  Joe Schmo  Jul 24  201245/13163128  "new spec"

The mime header notes the following,

  Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
	  name="new_spec.pdf"
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
  Content-Disposition: attachment;
	  filename="new_spec.pdf"

the quirk is I click to save the attachment and wait and wait...

After about an hour worth of waiting (on a pretty decent SUN
machine with 2GB of Ram), I get the following message (note
the attachment is not saved either).

     Warning: memory in use exceeds lisp pointer size
     Killing some buffers may delay running out of memory.
     However, certainly by the time you receive the 95% warning,
     you should clean up, kill this Emacs, and start a new one.

What's going on ?  Others who were CC'ed on the email were able
to save-off the attachment, view it, etc (they're using other mail
clients).

Work arounds, ideas ?  More info requests ?

Regards,

 .tf.