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Subject: Re: Attachments with Outlook 98
From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Wed Oct 04 2000 - 07:14:39 CDT

Michael van der Westhuizen:
> I've experienced a similar problem since switching to Postfix, and no, he
> won't be able to post the offending logs, as the mail appears to go through
> successfully. This does not, however, mean that this is not a fault of
> Postfix.

Well, it is not useful to report a perceived problem in Postfix
unless you provide evidence so that the problem can be investigated.

The people on this mailing list are very helpful, but they are not
yet capable of telepathy, paranormal vision, and other extrasensory
methods of perception.

In particular, Postfix treats mail content as one blob, and
isn't even aware whether or not mail has attachments.

Most likely, you made the mistake of changing multiple
things at the same time, and blaming the wrong software.

In other words, do the legwork and provide evidence or stop
wasting people's time.

        Wietse

> We also switched from sendmail, and our problem is almost exactly the same
> as described by the original poster, other that the version of Outlook
> (we're using 2000).
>
> As a comparison, our graphic designers G4 running Eudora doesn't lose
> mail... and neither did Outlook before we switched to Postfix...
>
> Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-postfix-userspostfix.org
> [mailto:owner-postfix-userspostfix.org]On Behalf Of Lars Hecking
> Sent: 04 October 2000 01:56
> To: postfix-userspostfix.org
> Subject: Re: Attachments with Outlook 98
>
>
> jgarniermatin.grenoble.hp.com writes:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > When I receive a message from a given Outlook 98 users I get the
> > message itself but loose the attachements.
> > This is postfix related because the same message was sent both to me
> > and to another user on another station using sendmail (
> > old version ) and he received the message with the attachments. Then
> > he forwarded the original message with netscape
> > messenger I had the attachments this time.
> > Usually I receive the attachments so it's an Outlook 98 ( 8.5.6204.0 )
> > to Postfix ( 19991231-pl08 ) problem.
> > I can't use another client than this Outlook 98 ( maybe upgrade or
> > apply bug fix but not sure ) but I can do anything I want on
> > the posfix side.
> > One can help ?
>
> I'm quite sure this is not a postfix problem. If you think otherwise,
> post log file evidence for both the postfix and, for comparison, the
> sendmail case.
>
>
>