> On 18/12/2025 19:11 EET Michael Orlitzky via dovecot <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>  
> We got a report today from one of our customers that they are unable to
> "redirect" mail with attachments off-site. At first I was skeptical,
> because sieve does not mess with the message body... but sure enough,
> it's easy to reproduce:
> 
> 1. Create a new address (mailbox)
> 2. Create a single sieve "redirect" filter for that address, pointing
> to my own mailbox
> 3. Send it a message with an attachment
> 4. An attachment is visible on the message that arrives, but it is
> corrupt
> 
> For example:
> 
>   $ cat hello.original.txt 
>   Hello, world!
> 
> but
> 
>   $ cat hello.attached.txt
> 
> (it's empty). Sending a JPEG image is a bit more enlightening:
> 
>   $ /bin/ls -l *jpg
>   -rw------- 1 mjo mjo 337119 Dec 18 11:15 image.attached.jpg
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 mjo mjo 337173 Dec 18 11:13 image.original.jpg
> 
> So something _is_ sent, but the start of the file is corrupt. Looking
> at it in a hex editor, it's only the first few lines that are messed
> up.
> 
> This is with dovecot 2.4.2, but notably, we are using zlib compression:
> 
>   mail_plugins = mail_compress
>   mail_compress_write_method = gz
> 
> I'm curious if anyone else can reproduce this? Redirecting via sieve is
> not common, so this isn't an emergency, but obviously it is preferable
> to have it working.
> 

Did you try in your testing environment what happens if you don't use 
compression to rule it out?

Aki

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