[imp] truncated text attachments?

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> 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?

Are you using sendmail?  If so you might need the -oi flag:

// Additionally, we want to use the '-oi' argument so that sendmail does not
// interpret a single '.' in the body of a message as the end of input.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu]
The University of Colorado at Boulder