quoted-printable octet-stream issues

[Dave Filchak]

This problem does not always manifest itself with Outlook as everyone
thinks. In our case, any PDF we make out of Acrobat is fine, even if sending
it with Outlook. We run into problems with PDFs created in other
applications, for instance, the Quickbooks accounting system. In this case,
we need to save the PDF that is created from QB, then open it in Acrobat and
re-save it. Then we can send it with Outlook and the PDF arrives in fine
condition. It has nothing to do with Outlook, at least in our case.

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Martin Hepworth
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 1:00 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] quoted-printable octet-stream issues

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..

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


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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