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Posted to server-user@james.apache.org by David Li <dl...@objectcosmos.com> on 2004/04/08 11:17:58 UTC
Receiving Corrupt Attachments
Hi All
I am having a weird problem with receiving attachment in James 2.1.3.
The attachments I sent are OK. But the attachments I receive are corrupted.
This is the case for both the file repository and db repository.
Help is appreciated!
Dave
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RE: Receiving Corrupt Attachments
Posted by bill page <bi...@snakeriversoftware.com>.
All I meant was that in my case it was work to home and vice versa. What I
had found was that work -> yahoo -> home worked (and vice versa). At that
point, I started looking at headers and noticed some differences. As I said
I eventually took a simple approach of having each of my watchguard
firewalls allow a specific server to be sort of trusted. This is a bit
speculative, but at the time I remember thinking that exhange talking to
another exchange (but with the firewall stripping some headers) caused the
problem. Obviously not exactly the same thing as this is James. I hadn't
seen the beginning of thread. If you're having problems with all sorts of
servers, sounds like my comments may not be relevant although if some
senders work, then reviewing headers still might be worthwhile.
bill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Li [mailto:dli@objectcosmos.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 10:39 PM
> To: James Users List; billp@snakeriversoftware.com
> Subject: RE: Receiving Corrupt Attachments
>
>
> Hi, the senders weren't just the yahoo webmail account, some are just
> regular email account, the same problem remains.
> Can you give more detail as to the "manual relay" suggestion?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bill page [mailto:billp@snakeriversoftware.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 8:32 PM
> To: 'James Users List'
> Subject: RE: Receiving Corrupt Attachments
>
>
> May not help, but maybe it will trigger some idea.
>
> Also, if I recall correctly, going through yahoo changed some
> stuff. Can't
> remember exactly what, but I'm pretty sure the mime type of
> the attachment
> was changed. Anyway you might try the same sort of manually relaying
> through something like yahoo to see if it works. Then try
> sorting through
> the headers, etc.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Li [mailto:dli@objectcosmos.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 9:56 PM
> > To: James Users List
> > Subject: RE: Receiving Corrupt Attachments
> >
> >
> > Yes, it is consistently repeatable.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:noel@devtech.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 5:20 PM
> > To: James Users List
> > Subject: RE: Receiving Corrupt Attachments
> >
> >
> > > Outlook retrieves the email with attachment from james server,
> > > then Adobe Reader complains
> >
> > > The WinZip program can't open the zip file
> >
> > I've never had that problem, and often receive PDF and ZIP
> > files. Is this a
> > consistently repeatable problem?
> >
> > --- Noel
> >
> >
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RE: Receiving Corrupt Attachments
Posted by David Li <dl...@objectcosmos.com>.
Hi, the senders weren't just the yahoo webmail account, some are just
regular email account, the same problem remains.
Can you give more detail as to the "manual relay" suggestion?
-----Original Message-----
From: bill page [mailto:billp@snakeriversoftware.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 8:32 PM
To: 'James Users List'
Subject: RE: Receiving Corrupt Attachments
May not help, but maybe it will trigger some idea.
Also, if I recall correctly, going through yahoo changed some stuff. Can't
remember exactly what, but I'm pretty sure the mime type of the attachment
was changed. Anyway you might try the same sort of manually relaying
through something like yahoo to see if it works. Then try sorting through
the headers, etc.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Li [mailto:dli@objectcosmos.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 9:56 PM
> To: James Users List
> Subject: RE: Receiving Corrupt Attachments
>
>
> Yes, it is consistently repeatable.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:noel@devtech.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 5:20 PM
> To: James Users List
> Subject: RE: Receiving Corrupt Attachments
>
>
> > Outlook retrieves the email with attachment from james server,
> > then Adobe Reader complains
>
> > The WinZip program can't open the zip file
>
> I've never had that problem, and often receive PDF and ZIP
> files. Is this a
> consistently repeatable problem?
>
> --- Noel
>
>
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RE: Receiving Corrupt Attachments
Posted by bill page <bi...@snakeriversoftware.com>.
I used to have problems sort of like this between my home and work. Both
were exchange 5.5. If I sent to a yahoo id and then home, it would work. I
finally put specific filtering into my firewalls (both work and home) to
allow anything between my two servers. Since changing home to james I
haven't had this problem. However my brother gets garbled attachements
coming from the work exchange server. If I send it home and then to my
brother the zips and pdfs are fine.
May not help, but maybe it will trigger some idea.
Also, if I recall correctly, going through yahoo changed some stuff. Can't
remember exactly what, but I'm pretty sure the mime type of the attachment
was changed. Anyway you might try the same sort of manually relaying
through something like yahoo to see if it works. Then try sorting through
the headers, etc.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Li [mailto:dli@objectcosmos.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 9:56 PM
> To: James Users List
> Subject: RE: Receiving Corrupt Attachments
>
>
> Yes, it is consistently repeatable.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:noel@devtech.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 5:20 PM
> To: James Users List
> Subject: RE: Receiving Corrupt Attachments
>
>
> > Outlook retrieves the email with attachment from james server,
> > then Adobe Reader complains
>
> > The WinZip program can't open the zip file
>
> I've never had that problem, and often receive PDF and ZIP
> files. Is this a
> consistently repeatable problem?
>
> --- Noel
>
>
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RE: Receiving Corrupt Attachments
Posted by David Li <dl...@objectcosmos.com>.
Yes, it is consistently repeatable.
-----Original Message-----
From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:noel@devtech.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 5:20 PM
To: James Users List
Subject: RE: Receiving Corrupt Attachments
> Outlook retrieves the email with attachment from james server,
> then Adobe Reader complains
> The WinZip program can't open the zip file
I've never had that problem, and often receive PDF and ZIP files. Is this a
consistently repeatable problem?
--- Noel
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RE: Receiving Corrupt Attachments
Posted by "Noel J. Bergman" <no...@devtech.com>.
> More and more I am led to suspect it is the MIME/attachment/CR-LF
> problem, please see the following thread
I am running James on a linux server, and using Outlook on Windows without
any problems. And I received both PDF and ZIP files today.
--- Noel
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RE: Receiving Corrupt Attachments
Posted by David Li <dl...@objectcosmos.com>.
More and more I am led to suspect it is the MIME/attachment/CR-LF problem,
please see the following thread
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&frame=right&th=2
de9c8453dc300d0&seekm=1060290483.585557%40cswreg.cos.agilent.com#link1
But how can I configure the mime/cr-lf related setting in James?
Thanks all.
-----Original Message-----
From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:noel@devtech.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 5:20 PM
To: James Users List
Subject: RE: Receiving Corrupt Attachments
> Outlook retrieves the email with attachment from james server,
> then Adobe Reader complains
> The WinZip program can't open the zip file
I've never had that problem, and often receive PDF and ZIP files. Is this a
consistently repeatable problem?
--- Noel
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RE: Receiving Corrupt Attachments
Posted by "Noel J. Bergman" <no...@devtech.com>.
> Outlook retrieves the email with attachment from james server,
> then Adobe Reader complains
> The WinZip program can't open the zip file
I've never had that problem, and often receive PDF and ZIP files. Is this a
consistently repeatable problem?
--- Noel
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RE: Receiving Corrupt Attachments
Posted by David Li <dl...@objectcosmos.com>.
I sent one PDF file and one zip file as email attachment from web mail
account to james account.
Outlook retrieves the email with attachment from james server, then Adobe
Reader complains about "insufficient data form image, file can not be found
..." when opening the PDF file, then the text portion of the PDF is
readable, but the image portion is blank.
The WinZip program can't open the zip file, complaining about "invalid
checksum error".
This seems to me that James somehow corrupted the attachment between the
time it receives, stores and retrieves the email. This is the case for both
using file storage and db(mysql) storage as inbox.
On the other hand, I have no problem sending email with attachments from
james account to web mail account.
-----Original Message-----
From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:noel@devtech.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 10:04 AM
To: James Users List
Subject: RE: Receiving Corrupt Attachments
> I am having a weird problem with receiving attachment in James 2.1.3.
Details?
--- Noel
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RE: Receiving Corrupt Attachments
Posted by "Noel J. Bergman" <no...@devtech.com>.
> I am having a weird problem with receiving attachment in James 2.1.3.
Details?
--- Noel
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