Dear Experts,
I suspect that I (with lots of assistance from Clarence) have
discovered a bug somewhere in V1.66 to do with attaching files to
messages:
I have a .ZIP file, 41680 bytes in length. If I attach that file to
an e-mail message and send it anywhere (including to myself), when the
.ZIP file is recovered from the message, its length comes out at 56349
bytes. Using PKUNZIP to try and unzip the file results in an error
message, understandably: the file is invalid.
If I DON'T actually send the message, but instead read it back
from OUTBOX and recover the attachment, the .ZIP file recovered has
grown by just 1 extra byte, to 41681 bytes. PKUNZIP seems happy to unzip
it.
If I repeat the above experiment in V1.64, I ALWAYS get a recovered
file having just 1 extra byte, no matter whether I actually send the
message down the wire or just read it back locally from OUTBOX. Either
way, PKUNZIP seems to be able to unzip the file and get back to its
original content. I don't know what it does with the extra 1 byte!
Could someone please try this and confirm what I see - and maybe even
suggest a remedy? If you'd like me to send the 41680-byte .ZIP to you,
just say!
Thanks as always,
Ron.
