What is the size of .dat file which is recieved by the recpient. Is it nearly matching with the attachment size?<br><br>When recpient does, view message source what he is getting. <br><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 5/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Hugo van der Kooij</b> <<a href="mailto:hvdkooij@vanderkooij.org">hvdkooij@vanderkooij.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, 30 May 2007, Michael Crider wrote:<br><br>> We migrated from a hosted mail server to an in-house server one month ago,<br>> running CentOS 4.4, MailScanner 4.59.4, Postfix 2.2.10, ClamAV and<br>> SpamAssassin
3.1.7, initially installed from the howto at <a href="http://hughesjr.com">hughesjr.com</a>, then<br>> fine tuned with the awesome info in FSL's manual and the mail list archives.<br>> Today is the first day with a problem that I haven't seen covered (may have
<br>> overlooked). One of our users is trying to send an attachment to the USDA.<br>> She has tried both xls and pdf files. In both cases the person receiving it<br>> says he is only getting a .dat file. According to his email headers, he is
<br>> using Exchange 6.0, and our user is using Thunderbird 2.0. She can email them<br>> to other users without a problem (have tested both local users and my home<br>> email account). His replies have all come back with the original email inline
<br>> (no headers or attachments), so I can't tell where the problem is. She had<br>> emailed attachments to him as recently as April 3 through the hosted server<br>> without a problem, but I have no idea how it was configured (I know it ran
<br>> SpamAssassin, but nothing beyond that). Has anyone else seen anything like<br>> this, or have suggestions on what I should look for? I don't know how<br>> computer literate he is, so I don't know how much to ask him (and Washington
<br>> DC is a long way from Missouri for me to run over and look myself :).<br><br>Use tcpdump to check the inbound and outbound packets. With a smart filter<br>you should just get both and should be able to tell in which format the
<br>message is received and in which format the message is send.<br><br>If you still send it ok it is a SEP and you can take the evening of.<br><br>That is how I tackle issues like this.<br><br>Hugo.<br><br>--<br>
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