Attachments messed up going to Exchange

[Pravin Rane]

What is the size of .dat file which is recieved by the recpient. Is it
nearly matching with the attachment size?

When recpient does, view message source what he is getting.




On 5/30/07, Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 30 May 2007, Michael Crider wrote:
>
> > We migrated from a hosted mail server to an in-house server one month
> ago,
> > running CentOS 4.4, MailScanner 4.59.4, Postfix 2.2.10, ClamAV and
> > SpamAssassin 3.1.7, initially installed from the howto at hughesjr.com,
> then
> > fine tuned with the awesome info in FSL's manual and the mail list
> archives.
> > Today is the first day with a problem that I haven't seen covered (may
> have
> > overlooked). One of our users is trying to send an attachment to the
> USDA.
> > She has tried both xls and pdf files. In both cases the person receiving
> it
> > says he is only getting a .dat file. According to his email headers, he
> is
> > using Exchange 6.0, and our user is using Thunderbird 2.0. She can email
> them
> > to other users without a problem (have tested both local users and my
> home
> > email account). His replies have all come back with the original email
> inline
> > (no headers or attachments), so I can't tell where the problem is. She
> had
> > emailed attachments to him as recently as April 3 through the hosted
> server
> > without a problem, but I have no idea how it was configured (I know it
> ran
> > SpamAssassin, but nothing beyond that). Has anyone else seen anything
> like
> > this, or have suggestions on what I should look for? I don't know how
> > computer literate he is, so I don't know how much to ask him (and
> Washington
> > DC is a long way from Missouri for me to run over and look myself :).
>
> Use tcpdump to check the inbound and outbound packets. With a smart filter
> you should just get both and should be able to tell in which format the
> message is received and in which format the message is send.
>
> If you still send it ok it is a SEP and you can take the evening of.
>
> That is how I tackle issues like this.
>
> Hugo.
>
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Regards

Pravin
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