[imp] truncated text attachments?

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Wed Mar 17 13:18:12 PST 2004


Zitat von Liam Hoekenga <liamr at umich.edu>:

> We're using a SQL based VFS attachment store, and we've received 
> complaints from
> help desk that some text attachments are getting truncated.
>
> Our helpdesk has an anti-virus team.  People in the residence halls send this
> team reports generated by certain anti-virus utilities.  70% of users 
> using our
> central IMAP service use our webmail (IMP) service.  So... they're sending
> these reports to the help desk using IMP.  This is the only group of people
> that have reported any problems with attachment truncation, and the 
> anti-virus
> team think it's a problem with the client, and not the user base.
>
> If it were more widely reported, and hit a less homogenious group of 
> users, I'd
> give more creedence to the idea that it's our service... but it isn't.  Any
> ideas here?

Is it always the same size it is truncated to? Might be a column size issue
in the vfs sql table, or some other sql server restriction. Did you try
switching to a file vfs driver?

Jan.

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