Some mail coming in without attachments

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

It means the attachment is probably tnef encoded and the webmail program 
was probably smart enough to deal with it.

I had a problem once with a braindead M-Sexchange admin who insisted on 
RTF'ing all outgoing mail. The latest MailScanner version does replace 
tnef-encoded mail with its own non-tnef-encoded version, so you might 
want to look into that.

Michael St. Laurent wrote:
> I thought the same thing at first but the attachment went through when
> it was sent to a web mail account.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Scott
> Silva
> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 11:11 AM
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Re: Some mail coming in without attachments
> 
> Michael St. Laurent spake the following on 12/1/2006 9:37 AM:
>> I've got two reports of emails being delivered without the Word
> document
>> attachments they were sent with.  Several attempts to send each of
> them
>> and each time the mail was delivered but there was no attachment.
>>  
>> Redhat Linux 9:
>> MailScanner-4.56.8-1 from the RPM install
>> ClamAV 0.88.6 & SpamAssassin 3.1.7 from the easy installation package
>>  
>> These packages were updated to the latest versions only a few weeks
>> ago.  So far the only other problem reported is a higher instance of
>> virus mails getting through to the secondary virus scanner (which is
>> running on the internal Exchange server).
>>
> Look for the obvious things like tnef encoded files being sent from an
> outlook
> user to an outlook express user. You really need to look at the message
> source
> and see if the attachments really aren't there.
>