>>>  Memo # 4 July 182000S4J(4).doc
>>
>>This is almost certainly an attachment someone received and was 
>>reading through web messaging -- or perhaps tried a couple times to 
>>read but couldn't.

>Do those files (the word docs, etc.) actually get opened on the 
>server when a person chooses to Open File rather than Save to disk?

No.  IMail has to use BASE64 to decode the attachment, and it saves the file to disk 
rather than to memory.  It will never run attachments.

It's kind of like when you download an .EXE that installs a program, it will often 
extract files into a temporary directory before running, and then delete them.  Just 
like install programs, every once in a while with IMail you'll end up with extra files 
lying around.

> One of the IMW.tmp files was empty, the other 2 had close to the same
> lines. Everything after the line about the MSWordDoc was in the first
> file, than not in the last. I presume this is where it crashed.

Ah, I see.  Given that the .DOC files were sitting in the spool directory, and two of 
the .TMP files contained .DOC files, it sounds like the .DOC file is causing the 
problem.

You can check the W2*.LOG files to see what the last entries were before the crash.  
That should give you an idea of whose mailbox these came from.  Once you know the user 
whose mailbox the file is in, you could decide how to handle it from there.
                                 -Scott
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