dbf file corruption?

[Julian Field]

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This may be a quoted-printable encoding problem, due to a bug in Outlook
which causes it to break qp-encoded files in a few situations. We are
working on a workaround for this, hopefully we will have something ready soon.

The most common case by far is windows-generated pdf files sent from
Outlook. It incorrectly qp encodes these files which breaks them as it gets
the qp encoding wrong :-(

At 19:34 07/09/2004, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>Im hoping someone can give a few pointers as to what
>maybe going wrong here.
>
>I have a customer who uses an application called
>freight force, this application generates a dbf file
>that gets sent via email to a user who imports it into
>an accounting application (I think Sage).
>
>This works fine unless it passes through MailScanner.
>
>Both the users have local accounts on my mail server,
>if they send/receive this file (using Outlook)
>something becomes corrupted, when they do the import
>into Sage the data is not readable.
>
>If the user sends the file from his hotmail account to
>the local account, its ok? even though it passes
>through MailScanner.
>
>If the user sends the file from his local account to a
>hotmail account, again the file is ok? again even
>though it passes through MailScanner.
>
>So in summary if the users both use there local
>accounts, the dbf file gets scanned by MailScanner but
>when delivered it becomes unreadable.
>
>I can recreate at will, and can give a copy
>(off-list)of the dbf file to anyone interested.
>
>I compared a scanned and unscanned version of the file
>using UltraEdit 32, and the hex values of the files
>are different.
>
>Its causing me a real headache and any guidance would
>be appreciated.

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Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
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