TNEF playing up again

[Peter Peters]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 15:31:53 +0200, you wrote:

>> Do you have any substantial information about this
>
>Isn't it enough that it is extremely unfriendly to send TNEF to people not
>using or wanting it?

The problem in this case was that they did send some TNEF to another
department and it went through our MailScanner which said their version
of TNEF was broken. So it got quarantained.

Actually it was to and from the same department but that department
consist of two (previous independant) departments with their own mail
handling. And management decided they use, need and want TNEF. In fact
the e-mail should never have gone through our MailScanner because of the
internal MX-ing. But nobody knows who mail travels between Exchange 5.5,
Active Directory, Exchange 2003 etc.

>If that were a physical mail they wouldn't send two
>letters in each envelope, one black on white text and one red on red, only
>readible by people with special glasses, would they?

You can think of my answer (actually theirs) when you consider they are
Microsoft (Exchange) adepts who truely believe every e-mail problem can
be solved by implementing Exchange and everybody will do so within a few
hours, days or weeks.

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Peter Peters, senior netwerkbeheerder
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