That could be it for this installation as well; they're using a
Linksys router, and it's been there for quite a while without
much attention. I'll check the firmware on it first chance I get.

Thanks!
--
Dave

On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 09:42  AM, Tod Fitch
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had this to say...

> On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 07:04  AM, David Thornton wrote:
> 
>> Hey all:
>> 
>> I've got a new SIMS installation that has been going great so far
>> except for two users who are having problems with attachments. I
>> have an account set up to mirror to a list, so that any message
>> going to that account also goes to these two users. A lot of the
>> messages going to this account have Word doc attachments, and
>> when the two users receive the files they are corrupt more often
>> than not. Both users are on Wintel machines (XP Pro and XP Home).
>> I can also retrieve messages from the same account via Entourage
>> on OS 9 & retrieve the same messages, and I have no problem with
>> the attachments. If it were only one of these guys having the
>> problem, I'd say it was likely his machine, but with two, I don't
>> know. Is there something in the account setup that might affect
>> how it handles attachments? How about in the way the server is
>> set up? Would the File Exchange settings have any bearing on this?
>> 
>> <snip>
> 
> I had a similar problem once that ended up being a firmware problem
> in a Linksys NAT box: Turns out it was corrupting data queued for
> output onto my DSL line. Tt recomputed checksums on the corrupted
> data so that the end receiver could not detect the corruption and
> ask for retransmission.
> 
> It only happened on emails that had large attachments and it only
> happened on the stuff leaving my LAN.
> 
> A firmware upgrade to the box fixed it.


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