Hello... Last week I posted the question below and got no replies :( Am I
the only one having such a problem or did I post the question poorly??


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Laura Bhandari
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 10:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IMail Forum] Attachment Corruption Problem



Hello - I'm somewhat new to the forum so I hope I am posting properly.... I
realize it is a lengthy email but I am trying to be as descriptive as
possible!

I saw read the postings about the corrupted attachments
(http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg78347.html)
and am  having the  same problems that "Mike" is/was having so I thought I
would re-post the issue to see if there  are some more ideas out there. I am
far from being an IMail (or networking) expert so please  bear with me :)

The summary of the problem is this:
80% of attachments to emails (word docs, excel docs, images, pdf files, zip
files, etc) that  come through IMail come through corrupted - either the
document won't open or the image has  lines and discolorations all over it
(see attached image). This happens to almost all emails  sent to our domain
emails when they arrive in our Outlook client. Almost all - but not every
single one. It does not matter whether the image is attached or embedded.

Here are things I have tried and other notes of interest:

* I am running IMail 8.05 with latest HotFix
* IMail was installed in July 2003 - no problems until the Symantec Engine
update came out in  October (But that may just be a coincidence??)
* attachments retrieved via webmail are fine (later corrupted when they are
POP'd).
* I set up an account that leaves a copy on the server (so I can retrieve
through webmail) and  forwards a copy to my RoadRunner account. All that I
receive through RR are fine.
* I pop my RR email in the same outlook that my domain email comes through -
and I never have a  problem with RR email.
* All users (about 5 of us) experience the problem - we all use Outlook
2000. I loaded Outlook  2003 and the problem remained.
* I uninstalled and re-installed the IMail program.
* I uninstalled and re-installed the IMail / Symantec anti-virus plug in.
* I tried just turning the anti virus off - didn't help.
* We do not use the IMail anti-spam stuff
* I installed a new NIC - didn't help.
* the config is that the server is just a member of the domain on our
network - behind a  linksys router (router has been rebooted)
* no other email probs as far as delivery - just the darn attachments.
* 2 domains hosted - about 1-2MB of traffic daily
* server is dedicated mail server - sits at about 142MB Ram being used (256
available) and  about 1-2% CPU usage.
* plenty of hard drive space available - I have the OS on 1 partition and
everything else on  another (it has 8gig free).

When I sit here and try to think of all the things it could be (the mail
server? the router?  the switch? our PCs?) it keeps coming back to why
wouldn't those things affect my RR email  then? It has to go through the
router and switch too right? Especially the one that is getting  forwarded
through the server to my RR email - it "touches" all the same things? The
only  difference I can think of is the mail server? It is Windows 2000
Server and fully service  packed. The only thing I haven't tried is
reinstalling the IMail program on another server. But  I just can't figure
out why that would make a difference.

Thanks - I look forward to ANY help you guys can give me on this.

~Laura


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