groupwise removing attachments

OK, GroupWise v6.0. Have any Support Packs been applied?

You're using the GroupWise 32-bit Windoze client, right? Accessing the mailstore natively, not via IMAP or POP, right?

When you forward, are you forwarding the message, or are you forwarding as an attachment?

Groupwise 6.0 sp3
The Groupwise server is on top of Netware 6.0 sp3
Clients connect Natively to the Mailstore
forwarding the message with the attachment. I can receive the message but the attachment is gone

Thanks

No, I think you misunderstood my question.

When you use the Forward function, are you Forwarding AS AN ATTACHMENT, or just Forwarding, the message? That is, there are TWO WAYS to forward a message, WHICH ONE are you using?

Just forward

Also just tried both option and no attachment

Hmmm....interesting. When you just Forward (and no Forward as Attachment), you should see the attachments down in the bottom of the composition window. Are they there?

If they are, but are not there when you receive the message on whatever other mailsystem you're sending to, then somewhere between GroupWise and that mailsystem the attachments are getting stripped.

If the email is forward to someone inside the network the attachment is there. it's just when I send the email outside
the size of the attachment is just 16k and it's a pdf
If I sent the attachment in a new mail I can receive it.

So you're saying that the presence or lack of the attechment depends on who is in the TO: field??

What I'm trying to understand is, when you first click FORWARD, and a new message window appears, BEFORE you put in any names in the TO: field, is the PDF attachment there?

This is BEFORE you put any names in the TO: field or do anything else. The attachment will either be there at that point, or it won't, and I need to know what the answer to that question is.

If it is there, and then it arrives for internal recipients but not for external ones, I would say that its getting stripped off somewhere. Ask your mail system admin if they strip attachments. If they don't, them  you need to check with the exteral recipient - does their E-Mail system strip attachments.

But if the PFD attachment is there when you first click FORWARD, if it shows up in that composition window, then the source of the problem is NOT the GroupWise internal system. Your mail admin might be stripping at the SMTP Gateway, but then that's not a flaw in GroupWise, is it? Its the system config as set up by the admin.

Yes the attachment is there when I click forward. I'm sending the email to my exchange server and the problem was first noticed when they received a reply for a client that said that did not receive the attachment. So the problem has been noticed on two external mail systems. The firewall is not blocking any attachments
also the person first sent this  email when she was proxied in to her boss email account. I tested this both proxied and from her account.

Thanks

OK, so you have an E-Mail that has a PDF attachment. You click FORWARD and a new message window appears, and the message and attachment are in the new message window. Right? If so, then so far, so good - that tells me the GroupWise client is behaving normally.

So, if you put the address of an internal (on the same GroupWise system) user in the TO: field and send it, it works fine, right? That person gets the E-Mail, and the .PDF file is attached to it, right?

If you put the address of an external user, someone not on the GroupWise system, in the TO: field, then they do NOT get the attachment, right? And you've tried this with two DIFFERENT E-Mail systems on the receiving end, right?

Finally, are you the admin of the GroupWise system, or an end-user?

ADMIN to the Groupwise system and the outside Exchange system

PsiCop Thanks for the help again. Sorry the question went so long with out an update