winmail.dat attahments with V3.22

[Daniel Bird]

When running MailScanner V3.22 with Exim 4.05 on Solaris 8 we seem to be having trouble receiving attachments and/or formatted text from MX Exchange servers at attached NHS Trust.

The problem manifests itself in a couple of ways.

1. Emails with no attachment, sent in plain text or formatted are delivered with a winmail.dat file as an attachment
2. reply's and forwards likewise.
3. Sometimes attachments sent directly (i.e not a reply or forward) come through perfectly fine.

Now, I thought this may have something to do with the MS-TNEF encoding, so I've tried both the C version of TNEF and the perl module but both have the same result.

Headers from a problematic mail:


MIME-version: 1.0
X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3
Content-type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C2A507.2DC7552C"
Content-class: urn:content-classes:message
Thread-topic: Email Attachments
Thread-index: AcKk4/exkWbdx+vpT0mzO8sb20GPywACRAXAAAZ2VFA=
X-MS-Has-Attach:
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
<5018A3F630D0AC4E82951D021084BF0BAD44 at stg1xch08.net.stgeorges.nhs.uk>
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.6 required=5.7
tests=SPAM_PHRASE_05_08,SUPERLONG_LINE version=2.43
X-Spam-Level: *
X-MailScanner-MXB: Found to be clean
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Dec 2002 13:29:37.0837 (UTC)
FILETIME=[2E34EDD0:01C2A507]

Headers from one which came through cleanly:

X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3
Content-type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C29F86.F5037516"
Content-class: urn:content-classes:message
Thread-topic: mail with attachment 4
Thread-index: AcKfhvvqteSPi8iPRDugSti99BYfpA==
X-MS-Has-Attach: yes
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.1 required=5.7
tests=HTML_50_70,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 version=2.43
X-Spam-Level: *
X-MailScanner-MH1: Found to be clean
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Dec 2002 13:29:11.0207 (UTC)
FILETIME=[F5714370:01C29F86]

Now, the only thing I can see in the headers (apart from the X-MailScanner-MHS1, MXB header - they are identically configured mailhubs) is the X-MS-Has-Attach and X-MS-TNEF-Correlator headers!

Have I missed something, or miss configured? Any light shed on this would be very helpful.

PS. I am planning to upgrade to V4 (once the missing character issue is resolved! :)

TIA

Dan
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Daniel Bird
Network and Systems Manager
Department Of Information Services
St. George's Hospital Medical School
Tooting
London SW17 0RE

P: +44 20 8725 2897
F: +44 20 8725 3583
E: dan at sghms.ac.uk
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