On 02/09/12 19:26, Dan Griffin wrote:

Anyone know why my server is suddenly delivering corrupted pdf and jpeg files? 

From one single email received, I can download a file several times, with different results each time. The file may open properly, or not at all (corrupted file message appears), or it may open, but with with distortions. This is happening within our entire domain.

I am running Surgemail 5.3h2-2  on Windows 2003 server.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Cheers,

Dan Griffin

Office Manager

The Garner Group Real Estate, LLC

2762 NW Crossing Drive Suite 100

Bend, OR 97701

Is this happening to just you or do you have others complaining?  Are your users accessing email from the Internet or via a local subnet?

Most email with attachments are stored as base64 encoded and your email client has to convert from base64 to native format.  This message was sent using Surgeweb.  Is this happening with Surgeweb?

check the event viewer for any hard drive errors.  Take the machine offline and run a memory checker on it.   Open your server and see if there are any capacitors going bad(bulging/burst/leaking) on the motherboard.

Depending on where the server is and where your computer is, it could also be dirty Internet access lines.

Lots of things to ponder, but alot of details missing here also.

Lyle Giese
LCR Computer Services, Inc.