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

[Götz Reinicke]

Timo Sirainen schrieb:
> 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..


O.K., that's something I was thinking too, but getting an other opinion 
is very usefull for me.

Thank you!

Regards

Götz

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