RE: attachments physically being changed en-route?

["Fritz Hayes" <fhayes@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Check the scanners.  They often mulch attachments.  Given the current virus
storm, they will have change the way they process attachments!

Fritz Hayes
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| Subject: attachments physically being changed en-route?
|
|
| We have a vendor that emails us invoices in fix-length ascii text file
| attachments and we use them to post to accts payable.   for the last week
| or so, they've been arriving in various states of dissaray:    sometimes,
| in the middle of a record, it will repeat the last 10 or 12 characters or
| so, sometimes it will skip a few characters, throwing the entire record
| format off.   sometimes there are 1 or 2 errors in the file, sometimes
| there are a bunch, sometimes there are none.   Sometimes if they send the
| same file twice, the changes are different.
|
| at first, i assumed that it was just a problem at thier end - but to test,
| I had her email - the same attachment in the same email - a good file (at
| her end) to both my yahoo account and my work notes account at the same
| time.
|
| I received the yahoo file via a browser, and it was perfect - the
| same file
| recieved by the work account was bad.
|
| has anyone heard of such a thing?
|
| we use domino/notes R5, McAffee enterprise virus scanner and trendmail for
| notes email scanner at the server level.
|
| can anyone give me an idea of where to look for this problem?
|
| Thanks,
|
| Rick