winmail.dat attahments with V3.22

[Daniel Bird]

Thanks Julian, I will contact the powers that be @ the trust and ask
them if they can.

Dan


Julian Field wrote:

> At 14:41 16/12/2002, you wrote:
>
>> 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
>
>
> Your Exchange Server is sending mail in "Microsoft Outlook Rich Text
> Format", which is totally incompatible with just about every
> non-Microsoft
> email application in the world. Change the setting on your Exchange
> server
> to use HTML instead and you will have rather more luck.
>
>> 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
>> ____________________________________
>>
>> 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
>> ____________________________________
>>
>> Everything is possible....except skiing through a revolving door.
>>
>>
>>
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>
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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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