Subj : Re: PDF Issue
To   : Barry Martin
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Sat Oct 26 2024 13:10:00

BARRY MARTIN wrote:
> Hi Folks!
> 
> I have an odd issue.  Tried to send an LibreOffice document to a friend
> via e-mail.  (Ky rolling his eyes at LibreOffice; I toss them back! <g>)
> That went through but she had a problem opening the attachment:
> "unsupported format".
> 
> So I use LibreOffice's convert directly to PDF like I have in the past
> with others and I'm pretty sure to her; get the spam rejection.  Remove
> links, retry, rejected.
> 
> Create new LibreOffice document, copy-and-paste_without_formatting,
> figuring that would take out whatever the invisible culprit was, or even
> better expose it -- edit to put back in the bolding and formatting.
> Nope.
> 
> Finally just copy the LibreOffice document, paste in to the e-mail body.
> Keeps the bolding and general format -- that goes through!
> 
> So any ideas on what I overlooked to get the potential spam flag slapped
> on the attachments?


Sounds like the recipient's antispam settings are "bounce all 
attachments that can do scripting" (which would be PDFs and ODTs).

If it also bounces a plaintext attachment, or a JPG, then it's ALL 
attachments.

If .TXT goes through, but the same file named .PDF does not, then it's 
judging by extension rather than content.

I have a weird problem on Silver (running XP64) where at first just 
SeaMonkey, then gradually all internet apps, refuse to save-to-disk 
..EXE, .MSI, .MP3 (but .MP4 are fine) and a few others... tho they will 
download them to cache, just won't save to disk. The solution is to name 
it FILENAME.EXE.TXT when saving it, then rename it later. I've been 
unable to find what is screwed up in permissions, and why it only 
affects downloads ... I can copy the same file from another PC on the 
network, no issues.

And why MP3 affected but not MP4 ??
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