Mystery of the missing email attachments
Folks, I'm using Sylpheed, fetchmail, and procmail on SuSE 9.3 to pull email from my ISP. The email runs through spamassassin en route to Sylpheed's inbox. Over the past few weeks, I've noticed that some attachments fail to make it through. It seems to happen at random -- some attachments make it, others don't. And so far I haven't detected any patterns among the winners and losers. I know the attachments get as far as my ISP; I've turned off fetchmail and seen them arrive at my ISP via my web browser. They also show up intact on a redundant account I keep with Yahoo. When I run Sylpheed in POP3 mode, rather than have it pick up mail from /var/spool/mail/, all attachments seem to come down. I've also activated and deactivated Clamav to see if it had any effect on attachments. It doesn't. Any thoughts on where to check? Some *rc file entry? With best regards, Pete
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2005-09-06 at 13:13 -0400, Peter N. Spotts wrote:
attachments. It doesn't. Any thoughts on where to check? Some *rc file entry?
Perhaps. Once I had a wrong folder definition in procmail, and the emails fitting the rule were lost. Activate verbose mode: VERBOSE=on LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log But it is strange you loose the attachments and not the complete emails: I'd think of an antivirus, or a policy removing banned file types; but in that case it should report to you what it did. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDHd/ftTMYHG2NR9URAqldAJ449V6/HltkIpk/xJc0axxOcJ0Y2ACfcqbQ QRViyFbzZgO5rZtXjg0RsKQ= =CrG+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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Carlos E. R.
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Peter N. Spotts