[Esd-l] Anyone seen this when receiving Mac Word files??

Jim Bucks jbucks at coloradostudios.com
Wed Feb 19 10:51:23 PST 2003


Hello,

Has anyone seen the following when receiving Macintosh MS Office files? 
Here are the details:

   - We're using procmail version 1.137
   - Senders appear to be using Mac's while my in-house
     users generally use PC's.
   - Senders appear to be using AOL or Earthlink or a local 
     ISP to send the documents.
   - The sender is only sending a single ".doc" file (to 
     the best of their knowledge).
   - It appears the de-fanging is getting confused shortly
     after starting the de-fanging process (and then starting
     over again).
   - As a result, the .doc files cannot be opened in MS Word.
     See the multiple de-fanging headers in the file 
     extract below.

We've had this off-and-on for about a year.  Last year we suspected AOL
(Mac / Word / AOL) doing something "funcky" to the formatting on the way
through AOL's mail servers, but it's now looking like it's more of a
Macintosh / MS issue causing Procmail to get confused.

Thanks for any advice you can give.

Jim


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Extract of the incoming MS Word document.


--part1_18b.163f9adc.2b83ced2_boundary
X-Content-Security: [gw1] original Content-Type was
multipart/appledouble;
X-Content-Security: [gw1] removed X-Mac-Creator="4d535744";
X-Mac-Type="5738424e";
Content-Type: APPLICATION/DEFANGED; 
name="1_2003MasterSignUpSheet.9331DEFANGED-doc"; 
boundary="ad_477767633_870322_boundary"


--ad_477767633_870322_boundary
X-Content-Security: [gw1] original Content-Type was
application/applefile;
X-Content-Security: [gw1] removed X-Mac-Creator="4d535744";
X-Mac-Type="5738424e"
Content-Type: APPLICATION/DEFANGED; 
name="1_2003MasterSignUpSheet.9331DEFANGED-doc";
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

AAUWBwACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAIAAAASgAAABAAAAAJAAAAWgAAACAAAAAD
AAAAegAAABsAAAACAAAAlQAAAR66bZOPunArToAAAACAAAAAVzhCTk1TV0QBAADlAsIAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAxXzIwMDNNYXN0ZXJTaWduVXBTaGVldC5kb2MAAAEAAAABAAAAAAAA
AAAeAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAHlNPUlQEUgCAABwA
Hv//
--ad_477767633_870322_boundary
X-Content-Security: [gw1] original Content-Type was application/msword;
Content-Type: APPLICATION/DEFANGED; 
name="1_2003MasterSignUpSheet.9331DEFANGED-doc"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
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rR8AAA4AamJqYoumi6YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJBBYAJZ4AAOHEAADhxAAA6xcAAAAA
AADDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/gAAAAAAAAD//w8AAAAAAAAAAAD//w8AAAAAAAAAAAD//w8A
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PAgAAAAAAAASAgAAAAAAABICAAAAAAAA8gQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPIEAADqAQAAygQAAAAA
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PAgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKoOAAAAAAAASgIAABgAAABiAgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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AAAAAJ4EAAAsAAAAvo1wugAAAACmAgAAAAAAAKYCAAAAAAAArgcAAI4AAACqDgAAAAAAAAAA
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Yx0AAAAAAACqDgAAAAAAADwIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABADDAA8A5QAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABUaGUg
MjAwMyBDb2xvcmFkbyBSb2NraWVzIEhvbWUgc2NoZWR1bGUgYmVnaW5zIG9uIEFwcmlsIDR0
aAkuDQlNb3VudGFpbiBNb2JpbGUgVGVsZXZpc2lvbiAoTU1UKSB3aWxsIGJlIHByb3ZpZGlu


-- 
Jim Bucks - IT/IS Support     www.coloradostudios.com 
2400 N. Ulster St.  Denver, Co.                 80238
jbucks at coloradostudios.com               303-388-8500


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