Re: TNEF winmail.dat data disappears

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"PM" <pmunro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Exchange doesn't. Do you have the mail sent through some other process
that changes the format to "plain text" before it arrives at the
Exchange server? Does the message still contain the "Content-Type:
application/ms-tnef" body part? Or is the header there but there's no
content?


The mail gateway is Mailsweeper which passes 'clean' messages through
unaltered. The size shown during the SMTP conversation (MSW to Exchange) is
the correct size. There are no other intermediate gateways. When the mail is
passed to Exchange it is also archived as a text file, this file has the
correct headers and body so I think it is reasonable to assume that these
are passed to Exchange.


Is there a way of seeing the raw data that Exchange has stored for a
particular message ID?

Not really. You can use telnet to connect to pot 110 on the server and
(assuming the message is in the Inbox), use POP3 commands to see the
raw data stream. If you know the size of the message it'll be easier
to find.


telnet <server> 110
user <ntdmain>\<user-id>\<alias>
pass <password>
LIST
RETR <message-number>
QUIT


That brings up another point. Do you see the same behavior using
different e-mail clients? How about OWA?

--
Rich Matheisen
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