Email missing for some of recipients
Alex Neuman van der Hans
alex at nkpanama.com
Thu Feb 23 04:38:24 GMT 2006
You may have compounded it by using RTF. Fortunately Julian's worked
around it.
Devi S wrote:
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> */Terry WONG/ Hankyu HKG <terry at hankyu.com.hk>/* wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I'm using Mailscanner 4.40.11-1 on Redhat Linux 9. I often having
> trouble on lost email messages. Usually the email will be send to
> several users and CC several users too. I saw in the Mailwatch
> showing the message were successfully deliver to those users.
> However, some users complains they haven't got such message while
> some of them have. I suspect this situation was caused by the
> Mailscanner overloaded. Would anyone having the same problem could
> give me some hints to solve this problem? Thanks!!
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> Terry,
> The same whimsical problem I am also facing. Are! you using sendmail?
> Are your users using Microsoft Outlook 2003?
> These are my findings but i have not solved the problem but avoided it,
> 1. Mail sent in HTML format from Microsoft outlook 2003 are the
> candidate for these "missing mails"
> 2. If a mail is sent to three persons two will receive it one will not
> receive it
> 3. I stopped MailScanner and tried sending the mail, again the user
> who didn't receive the mail still didn't receive it.
> 4. The message id of these mails are very lenghty.
> 5. If the users send the same mail in RTF format the mails reaches the
> user without any issue
> 6. Not all mails sent in HTML format will get missed, meaning some
> will reach SAFELY
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> So I advised my user group not to use HTML format while sending mails
> instead use RTF format. After this the situation is fairly under
> control. No one has complained of missing mails. But I am su! re I
> have not solved the problem but avoided it!
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> *Regards*
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> *Devi S.*
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> Our greatest glory is not in never falling- but in rising every time
> we fall - Confucius
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Alex Neuman van der Hans
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