MailScanner Digest, Vol 50, Issue 21

[Dave Jones]

> MailScanner is probably seeing it as a file with many extensions? Ever
> period will show as an extension.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Dave
> Jones
> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 4:36 PM
> To: mailscanner
> Subject: PDF attachment being dropped silently by MailScanner
>
> I am running MailScanner version 4.78.17 and have an issue when an
> HTML email comes in with a PDF attached.  Below is the end of the body
> when the email is not sent through MailScanner.  MailScanner is
> dropping off everything past the "<br><br><br><br>" line below.
>
> </html>
> <br><br><br><br>
> ------_=_NextPart_002_01CAB0D0.AD4BE979--
>
> ------_=_NextPart_001_01CAB0D0.AD4BE979
> Content-Type: application/pdf;
> name="Tech U.S.A. Intl Trvlrs Trvlng Today.pdf"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Description: Tech U.S.A. Intl Trvlrs Trvlng Today.pdf
> Content-Disposition: attachment;
> filename="Tech U.S.A. Intl Trvlrs Trvlng Today.pdf"
> Content-Location:
> 1_multipart%3F2_Tech%20U.S.A.%20Intl%20Trvlrs%20Trvlng%20Today.pdf
>
> [clipped MIME encoding]
>
> --
> Dave Jones
>

It's not being dropped based on the filename since those will notify the
recipient along with an admin mailbox.

Recent debugging shows that it may be something strange with how the
email is being generated.  We can't get the originator of the email to give
us the details of how it's being created.  It seems that the problem is with
some automated generation process but when they just create the email
using Outlook and attach the PDF, it seems to work fine to all recipients.

However, there may be something with how MailScanner (or a Perl library)
is processing the email attachment because even when the email was
being generated with an automated process, some of the recipients
received the PDF fine if they didn't go through MailScanner.

The email size seems to stay the full size all the way through multiple
email servers including MailScanner but when we "view source" on the
client, it's chopped off short.  I guess this could be a mail client issue
not being able to interpret the MIME encoding if something was a
little off.

Dave
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