[Mimedefang] Re: users seeing strange text attachments??

J.D. Bronson jbronson at wixb.com
Tue Mar 16 09:20:56 EST 2004


At 07:47 AM 03/16/2004, you wrote:
>I've heard of this happening with Outlook, but it's a client bug that is
>usually fixed by a restart.  Do you have access to the raw (undecoded)
>message source?  If so, can you post (or provide a link to) a (small) sample
>of one of the messages that is appearing this way?

Here is what is in /var/mail BEFORE the user pop's the email. It shows as 
an attachment (which consists of the whole message in a txt file) when 
using Pegasus Email. My client (Eudora) does not show this. I have only 
mangled personal information in this mailspool file:

====================================================
 From jbronson at wixb.com Tue Mar 16 08:14:37 2004
Return-Path: <jbronson at wixb.com>
Received: from smtp.wixb.com (smtp.wixb.com [192.168.82.170])
         by molson.wixb.com (8.13.0.Alpha0+Sun/8.13.0.Alpha0) with ESMTP id 
i2GEEaf2002501
         for <anotheruser at wixb.com>; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:14:37 -0600 (CST)
Message-Id: <6.1.0.3.2.20040316081543.00ab4d40 at localhost>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:15:53 -0600
To: Some User <anotheruser at wixb.com>
From: "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson at wixb.com>
Subject: test
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------=_1079446477-2144-42"
X-Virus-Scanned-By: F-PROT ANTIVIRUS 4.4.0 - CLEAN
X-Disclaimer-Added: YES
X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.40
Content-Length: 379

This is a multi-part message in MIME format...

------------=_1079446477-2144-42
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
Content-Disposition: inline

hello this is a test



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I hope this helps someone tell me what I am dealing with.
I have only one other minor issue and I am all setup :)







-- 
J.D. Bronson
Aurora Health Care // Information Services // Milwaukee, WI USA
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