Outlook and UUENCODED attachments

[Julian Field]

At some point, yes please send me the messages. At the moment I haven't got
time to look at it. Are you using "Sign Clean Messages = yes"? If so, can
you try setting it to "no" and see what happens.

At 20:01 12/03/2003, you wrote:
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>Hash: SHA1
>
>I'm not 100% sure that this is a MailScanner issue but this issue only
>started being reported after installing MailScanner.
>
>I have a user that is sending file attachments (usually office
>documents) from Outlook 97 and when they send these e-mails to other
>internal users the other users get the e-mail but the attachment is
>empty.  When they send the e-mail to me (external using Mozilla mail) I
>get the e-mail fine.
>
>It appears that the originating mail client is encoding using UUENCODE
>instead of MIME from the following headers:
>
>X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211
>Encoding: 15 TEXT, 447 UUENCODE
>X-MS-Attachment: Doc1.doc 0 00-00-1980 00:00
>
>MailScanner is generating the following body content:
>
>The following is a multipart MIME message which was extracted
>from a uuencoded message.
>
>- ------------=_1047489992-23715-0
>
>The message then follows the boundary and goes on.
>
>The internal users, also using Outlook 97, are getting the message and
>when they forward it to me the file attachment looks like this:
>
>- ------ =_NextPart_000_01C2E88B.02DAFF40
>Content-Type: application/msword; name="Doc1.doc"
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>
>
>- ------ =_NextPart_000_01C2E88B.02DAFF40--
>
>When the user sends me the same attachment, I get the following:
>
>- ------------=_1047489992-23715-0
>Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="Doc1.doc"; x-unix-mode="0600"
>Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Doc1.doc"
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.411 (Entity 5.404)
>
><File base64 encoded here>
>
>- ------------=_1047489992-23715-0--
>
>
>The originating site is using MailScanner 4.12-2 and I'm using
>MailScanner 4.13-3.
>
>
>If needed I can send the sanitised e-mails for inspection.
>
>- --
>James A. Pattie
>james at pcxperience.com
>
>Linux  --  SysAdmin / Programmer
>Xperience, Inc.
>http://www.pcxperience.com/
>http://www.xperienceinc.com/
>
>GPG Key Available at http://www.pcxperience.com/gpgkeys/james.html
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>--
>This message has been scanned for viruses and
>dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
>believed to be clean.

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Julian Field
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