OL2003 Attachment Problems

[wtf]

Hi,

a custumer experiences the following problem within his network (w2k3
server, XPSP1 clients)
with regard to outlook and attachments:

The mail in question is a mail with a rar-compressed attachment:
If the same mail goes to a workstation with OL2002(SP3) installed,
everything is
perfect, but on the workstations with OL2003 (SP1) installed, the mail seems
to
be "empty".

That is: no "from", no "to", no "subject" and no attachment.

In the body only one line shows up, which seems to be the header of the
rar-attachment.
Even changing the extension of the attachment (to ".bmp") does not change a
thing.

I tried everything to find the cause of this problem but have been
unsuccessfull
so far.

btw: OL Express does the same on these workstations.

Any ideas would be really appreciated!

H. Eberhard

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

if he hits forward, does the contents of the message show up?

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[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Missing bodies are a bug and I forget if we have a resolution for it. You
might want to try searching google.com for that problem.

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First and foremost: thanks for your quick response!

I tried everything i could possibly think of, but i did not try that.

I will check that tomorrow!

BTW:
Sometimes (could not figure out the systematics involved yet) the OL2003
clients
only get parts of mails (like only the last half of the body) even if
there
are
no attachments and the mails are plain text or Html. Again, the OL2002
clients
work fine...

if he hits forward, does the contents of the message show up?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



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Hi,

a custumer experiences the following problem within his network (w2k3
server, XPSP1 clients)
with regard to outlook and attachments:

The mail in question is a mail with a rar-compressed attachment:
If the same mail goes to a workstation with OL2002(SP3) installed,
everything is
perfect, but on the workstations with OL2003 (SP1) installed, the mail
seems to
be "empty".

That is: no "from", no "to", no "subject" and no attachment.

In the body only one line shows up, which seems to be the header of the
rar-attachment.
Even changing the extension of the attachment (to ".bmp") does not
change
a thing.

I tried everything to find the cause of this problem but have been
unsuccessfull
so far.

btw: OL Express does the same on these workstations.

Any ideas would be really appreciated!

H. Eberhard

 

[wtf]

Hi , today i managed to localize the root of the problem. It is caused by
the
antivirus software installed (NOD32 from Eset) which tries to add a string
"Checked for Viruses" to the mail, thereby making the message unreadable to
OL2003. Disabling the string ading function within the anivirus software
solved the problem.

Thanks again for your help!!