PDF attachment being dropped silently by MailScanner

[Mark Sapiro]

Dave Jones quoted Mark Sapiro and wrote:
>>
>>What is the full MIME structure of the message? What you show above is
>>only a piece. Show the Content-Type: header including boundary= for the
>>message itself and also show all boundaries and the Content-Type: from
>>all sub-parts.
>
>What I have above is all of the MIME information -- at least all that is shown
>from Outlook with "View Source".  Starting with the [...] is the MIME encoded
>attachment.
>
>I will see if I can get one sent to my gmail account so I can do a real "View
>Source" to see if it's an incomplete MIME header.  I am now suspecting the
>generating application is problem.



I think you must not understand what I'm asking.

You showed:

     </html>
     <br><br><br><br>
     ------_=_NextPart_002_01CAB0D0.AD4BE979--

     ------_=_NextPart_001_01CAB0D0.AD4BE979
     Content-Type: application/pdf;


This is only the terminating boundary from a prior multipart part and
the beginning of the application/pdf part.

The complete message may have headers and boundaries like

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
    boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01CAB0D0.AD4BE979
[...]


------_=_NextPart_001_01CAB0D0.AD4BE979
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
    boundary="----_=_NextPart_002_01CAB0D0.AD4BE979"

------_=_NextPart_002_01CAB0D0.AD4BE979
Content-Type: text/plain
[plain text body]

------_=_NextPart_002_01CAB0D0.AD4BE979
Content-Type: text/html
[html body]

------_=_NextPart_002_01CAB0D0.AD4BE979--

------_=_NextPart_001_01CAB0D0.AD4BE979
Content-Type: application/pdf
[pdf attachmemt]

------_=_NextPart_001_01CAB0D0.AD4BE979--


That's what I want to see. The above is a properly formed MIME message
with structure

multipart/mixed
    multipart/alternative
        text/plain
        text/html
    application/pdf

I want to see the equivalent headers and boundaries from your message.
Then we will see if the fault is that the message is defective or
there is a MailScanner issue.

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