4.61.7-2 - Attachments get zipped = message body disappears

[Rick Cooper]

 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
 > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On 
 > Behalf Of Ken A
 > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:22 PM
 > To: MailScanner discussion
 > Subject: Re: 4.61.7-2 - Attachments get zipped = message 
 > body disappears
 > 
 > Nigel Kendrick wrote:
 > >> Subject: RE: 4.61.7-2 - Attachments get zipped = message 
 > body disappears
 > >>
 > >>
 > >> This is a side effect for users where the email message 
 > is actually an
 > >> attachment and not in the normal message body....I've had 
 > fun with this
 > >> as well..
 > > 
 > > 
 > > I upgraded 3 mail servers at the same time last week and I 
 > have just sent
 > > another test message with attachment to my Googlemail account via a
 > > different server and this message has made it in one piece. 
 > > 
 > > What's the best way to approach this!?
 > > 
 > > Ta
 > > 
 > Seems like it would be nice to be able to specify which type of 
 > attachments to zip.. (doc|xls|pdf|tiff).. etc.
 > Ken
 > 

You can specify what kinds of files are *not* zipped in MailScanner.conf. My
says

Attachment Extensions Not To Zip = .zip .rar .gz .tgz .mpg .mpeg .mp3 .rpm
.pdf .xls .htm .html .eml

Rick 


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