I'll look to see whats on the server, however, i'm now at about 400 attachments that we have sent them, all ones that previously they have had problems with, and none of them are yet corrupt, so I'm not convinced its just a network card issue, unless it only happens at load.
-----Original Message----- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 January 2008 06:07 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: HELP! Corrupt attachments again 3rd'd considering the file size issue that Gary mentioned. Seen that before too. On Jan 22, 2008 7:53 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I second the notion on the NIC. If you're using MB NICs, see if there's > updated drivers, or put in a good Intel card or similar and try it again. > BTDT. > > > ________________________________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:44 PM > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: HELP! Corrupt attachments again > > > > > > > > > > We ran into this where small attachments never had a problem. Start sending > large attachments and it was reproducible. Ended up being a bad NIC at some > level. Put a new NIC and the problem went away. Dell came out and swapped > the system board and that fixed it permanently. > > > > > > > > > > From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:14 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: HELP! Corrupt attachments again > > > > > > Hi chaps, > > We are still getting ongoing problems with attachments being corrupt. In a > group of about 15 people we see maybe two or three a day that get corrupted. > > As I've said before, im 100% certain it's not exchange as I can't find a > thing wrong, no error logs, no proof of corruption, no errors when running > isinteg etc, and nothing NOTHING is reproducible. At the moment I'm sending > two emails every 10 mins to a test account on the server, each email has two > attachments (pdf and jpg). So far I've opened and viewed the same > attachments 60 times and haven't found a thing wrong. > > My believe is that the attachments are getting corrupt before it hits their > network. Their .co.uk name goes through an ISPs mail sevrer where it's > filtering for spam and virus before being forward on. Their .COM goes > through a full email-store-and-forward type filtering service with another > provider. I've suggested that they get the ISPs to dump their mail in a pop > box, and have the exchange box collect them from there. Once done, if a user > has a problem, we can check the copy in the pop box and, if the attachment > is corrupt there as well, we know it's not their server. If it isn't corrupt > in the pop box, then, well, then I'm back to square one. > > Their connection is supplied by the serviced office company they lease from, > but while it's very well used, it doesn't show any packet loss indicative of > connections being dropped, so I'm inclined to rule this out. > > Has anyone got any other suggestions on how to bug hunt this ? > > > > Olly > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________ > > The information contained in this E-mail message, including any attached > files transmitted, is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is > intended only for the sole use of the individual(s) named above. If you are > the intended recipient, be aware that your use of any confidential or > personal information may be restricted by state and federal privacy laws. If > you, the reader of this message, are not the intended recipient, you are > hereby notified that you should not further disseminate, distribute or > forward this E-mail message. If you have received this E-mail in error, > please notify the sender and delete the material from your computer system. > This message is provided for information purposes and should not be > construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or > related financial instruments in any jurisdiction. > > > > > -- ME2 ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
