Re: mangled attachments

[Curtis Vaughan <curtis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 26 Oct, 2004, at 10:30, Wietse Venema wrote:

> Curtis Vaughan:
> > I don't know what's going on with our postfix (2.1.1) server.
> >
> > I've just discovered that when sending attachments to mailboxes on 
> > this
> > server, the attachments might remain as mime attachments as opposed to
> > the original attachment.
> >
> > For example. When an employee sends 2 Excel files to my mailbox, I get
> > the 2 Excel files. Whereas when he sends the exact same message with
> > attachments to Sales, the attachments come through as a mime
> > attachment.
> >
> > Now, I thought maybe it had to do with the mail client program, so I
> > set up the Sales account on my computer and again, although I got the
> > files normally on my account, they came through as a single mime
> > attachment for Sales.
> >
> > So, I also went to the server using Webmin and looked at the users'
> > mailboxes. In my mailbox there were 2 Excel file attachment shown,
> > whereas for Sales there was one mime attachment.
> >
> > Why would postfix be doing this?
> Postfix does not do change the MIME structure.
>
> 	Wietse
But then what is changing it? I can't see any other explanation.

Curtis