Zip attachments not working in reply to an any e-mail

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Aug 22 10:10:46 IST 2008


What mail client are they using when they reply and add attachments?
Can you please send me a mail queue spool file which causes this to 
happen incorrectly?
Please send the file to mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk.

Hafiz (Variegate) wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> We have integrate MailScanner with Scalix (using Postfix instead) and 
> everything seems to work fine.
> I have enable the auto zip function in MailScanner and below is how 
> our configuration looks like
>
> Zip Attachments = yes
> Attachments Zip Filename = MessageAttachments.zip
> Attachments Min Total Size To Zip = 100k
> Attachment Extensions Not To Zip = .zip .rar .gz .tgz .7z
>
> We notice that the auto-zip function works if we create a new fresh 
> e-mail with some attachments in it. The mail is sent with 
> "MessageAttachments.zip" attached to it - works great !
>
> But it doesn't happen if we replying to any e-mail and add in some 
> attachments. The recipient received the mail without the attachment is 
> being zipped.
>
> Is this normal or is there anything I miss ? Or might probably a bug ?
>
> By the way our MailScanner version
>
> Running on
> Linux 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jun 25 13:49:24 EDT 2008 i686 i686 
> i386 GNU/Linux
> This is CentOS release 5.2 (Final)
> This is Perl version 5.008008 (5.8.8)
> This is MailScanner version 4.70.7
>
> -- 
> Thanks.
>
> Mohd Hafiz Ramly
> Senior Consultant
> *Variegate Systems Sdn Bhd*
> Tel : +60 4 2298808
> Fax : +60 4 2295006
> Mobile : +6 013 4812676
> Web : http://www.variegate.biz
> Variegate - Openbravo <http://www.variegate.biz/>
> <http://www.variegate.biz/>

Jules

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