[Dovecot] strange dropping of Word.doc-attachements - sendmail dovecot RHEL4

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 09:16 +0200, Götz Reinicke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we have a strange problem: two of our users informed me, that they
> aren't able to send word-.doc-files anymore while othe attachements work
> fine. The e-mail gets deliverd, but the attachement is dropped.
> 
> This happens using the latest thunderbird 1.5.x and mac os x. The e-mail
> is also not saved in the send-drawer. If the users send the same e-mail
> to the same recepient using an other mailclient, there is no problem.
> 
> Other users (like me) using the same systemsettings and software
> versions don't have the problem.
> 
> The server is RHEL 4 (2.6.9-kernel), sendmail 8.13.1 and dovecot 0.99.
> 
> We use Mailscanner and spamassassin too, but as only the two users do
> have the problem I'm looking for some help to track this problem down.
> 
> Any ideas??

Well, Dovecot doesn't touch mail deliveries, and it certainly doesn't
remove attachments at any point. I'd guess this is a client problem
since using another client works..
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