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Subject: Re: attached files and outlook
From: Ralf Hildebrandt (R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2000 - 06:25:32 CST

> I run Postfix (19990906-pl08) on a Linux system (Mandrake 6), and the
> clients use Outlook (97 or 2000) or Outlook Express with POP/SMTP.
> It seems that there are problems with attached files.
> In some cases, the recipient of a message that contains an attached file
> (say a .doc) cannot see the attached file at all. The received message has a
> consistent size (that is more than the same message without the attached
> file), but the mail software doesn't see that there is an attached file.
> What puzzles me the most is that I cannot sort out a pattern : between two
> clients it works fine, but between two others it doesn't, even if all of
> them use Outlook 97.

> In one case, a client send with Outlook 97 a message with a file attached.
> When the recipient uses Outlook Express, the file is not visible. But when
> he uses Outlook 97, the file is visible.

With the same message? Then I'd say OE is broken.
Have you tried with real clients, like mutt, Pine, Pegasus or Eudora?

> I think that Postfix is involved because when I tried with Exchange Server,
> running only POP and SMTP, in all case the attached files were OK.

The MTA must not meddle with the contents of a mail.
Exchange Servers are known to modify mails on the fly (by e.g. changing the
charset a mail is encoded in, thus breaking things). 

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