[Esd-l] ERR: mimencode failed

[Mike McCandless]

I get the message "ERR: mimeencode failed" in the procmail log when
receiving MS-Office attachments, although the attachments get there fine.
What is the cause?  A recent example from procmail log is:

Sanitizing MIME & attachments in "Excel Attachment" from
<michael at prismbiz.com> to <michael at prismbiz.com>
msgid=<002601c476aa$12977450$6701a8c0 at RTP8355>
 Checking Office document "Expense Report Template.xls" for stripping.
 Checking Office document "Expense Report Template.xls" for stripping.
 ERR: mimencode failed:


The contents of /etc/procmailrc are:

PATH="/usr/bin:$PATH:/usr/local/bin"
SHELL=/bin/sh

STRIPPED_EXECUTABLES=/etc/procmail/stripped-specs
SECRET="a secret"
DISABLE_MACRO_CHECK=
SECURITY_STRIP_MSTNEF=YES
DEFANG_WEBBUGS=YES
SECURITY_NONOTIFY_LONGSUBJECT=YES
SECURITY_POISON_WINEXE=YES

MANGLE_EXTENSIONS="long list of extensions..."

DROPPRIVS=yes
LOGFILE=$HOME/Procmail/log

INCLUDERC=/etc/procmail/local-rules.procmail
INCLUDERC=/etc/procmail/html-trap.procmail


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Mike McCandless
michael at prismbiz.com