Hi there,

We are using small business server 2000 as our email server and I am
having a small problem with it. When a certain customer sends us
emails with attachments, the attachments are being stripped out of the
emails by exchange.

e.g They sent us an email with an attachment yesterday. When I looked
in the logs for the smtp virtual server on exchange it said the
message was ~53K. When the user looked at the message in Outlook it
said the message was 4K and the attachment was missing.

I assume there is something slightly awry in the format of the emails
from this particular user that is upsetting exchange when it is
processing the email. Has anyone had this problem and any suggestions
as to how I might solve ? Is there a way of capturing what the smtp
server sees for an email before it flows into the bowels of exchange
never to be seen again in it's original smtp format ?

To work around this problem we have been having this customer send
email to people's hotmail/yahoo mail accounts. They don't seem to have
a problem with the email attachments from this customer.

Alan

Re: Exchange - Missing Attachments by Y

Y
Mon Jan 12 18:48:28 CST 2004

Hi,

Do you have Anti-virus for Exchange installed on your SBS2000? If yes check
it to see if it has been set to remove all incoming attachments.

Hope this help. 8-)

Rgds.
choy


"Al" <alsecure2002@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:21a9c98d.0401121641.1e091ca5@posting.google.com...
> Hi there,
>
> We are using small business server 2000 as our email server and I am
> having a small problem with it. When a certain customer sends us
> emails with attachments, the attachments are being stripped out of the
> emails by exchange.
>
> e.g They sent us an email with an attachment yesterday. When I looked
> in the logs for the smtp virtual server on exchange it said the
> message was ~53K. When the user looked at the message in Outlook it
> said the message was 4K and the attachment was missing.
>
> I assume there is something slightly awry in the format of the emails
> from this particular user that is upsetting exchange when it is
> processing the email. Has anyone had this problem and any suggestions
> as to how I might solve ? Is there a way of capturing what the smtp
> server sees for an email before it flows into the bowels of exchange
> never to be seen again in it's original smtp format ?
>
> To work around this problem we have been having this customer send
> email to people's hotmail/yahoo mail accounts. They don't seem to have
> a problem with the email attachments from this customer.
>
> Alan



Re: Exchange - Missing Attachments by alsecure2002

alsecure2002
Tue Jan 13 16:04:45 CST 2004

Thanks Choy for the response ! We do have Trend anti-virus running on
the machine but it usually replaces the attachment with a message
saying that it's removed the attachment if it detects a virus. It's
not doing that in this instance so I assume anti-virus isn't the
culprit.

Alan