error with mails composed via rich text format

Pravin Rane pravin.rane at gmail.com
Tue May 22 17:52:55 IST 2007


Well this is not Mailscanner problem.
The actual attachment and message gets embedded in winmail.dat file making
unreadable for MUA's other than Microsoft Outlook 97/2000

See below link for more info
http://www.gpc.edu/~jbenson/resource/winmail.htm
and this one
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/138053



On 5/22/07, Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 22 May 2007, vinay poojary wrote:
>
> > mailscanner is a lovely tool to work with, I have enjoyed the
> mailscanner for years now with no problems .
> >
> > presently i am facing a small problem , the mails sent via  rich text
> format gets corrupted / reaches the users with headers information etc .The
> attachment sent via rich text format gets  embedded in mail body .
>
> Does this happen if you just let it pass and do not let MailScanner touch
> it? (But still use the same MTA)
>
> Can you check the original message to see it conforms to RFC's? I have
> seen quite a few messages with obscure endings in the headers at some
> lines which is going to mess up handling by strict interpreters.
>
> Hugo.
>
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Regards

Pravin
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