Re: [Exim] help! losing message bodies occasionally...

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Steve Haslam
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] help! losing message bodies occasionally...
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Steve Haslam wrote:

> A few people have sometimes been getting emails with no message body,
> something I'm unable to reproduce... Unfortunately, that means that it
> could be happening at any mailer between the sender and here, or in
> our IMAP/POP daemon...
>
> So this is just a general cry for help- has anyone else been afflicted
> with this sort of problem and found something that particularly sets
> it off? I'm inclined to say it's not our server that's doing it, but I
> can't really back it up...


One thing you could check is the size of the incoming messages, as
logged by Exim as S=nnnnn. If the sizes are small (and correspond to
just the headers received) then the chances are the problem arises at
the sender's end.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.