quoted-printable octet-stream issues

[Martin Hepworth]

Chuck

what version of MS are you using. I think 4.35 has a fix for this issue,
the problem is Outleek, rather than exchange. Anyway upgrading to
4.35-11 fixed the issue for the one person affected here..

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Martin Hepworth
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Solid State Logic
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Chuck Foster wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been looking at a problem with some PDF messages that were being
> corrupted on arrival; looking at it more closely I can see that our
> Exchange server is sending out the attachments as quoted-printable and by
> the time they've been through MailScanner the content has been changed,
> specifically the midline =0As have now become physical newlines and (I
> guess) are being mangled through the MTA (sendmail).
>
> I noted that there is some code to 'massage' quoted-printable in
> Message.pm, and the file on disk seems to be fine, so I would think the
> problem is in re-encoding the content back to quoted-printable on the way
> out.
>
> Is this a common problem that has now been fixed (I couldn't find any
> reference on a net trawl)? Obviously this doesn't occur for BASE64-encoded
> messages.
>
> Regards,
> Chuck
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