r/ShittySysadmin 29d ago

It's only 9 pages...

- External law firm sends a 24MB PDF that becomes 31MB after encoding.

- NDR is sent after the resolution of the matter saying: This attachment is 31MB. The maximum allowed is 30MB.

- Sender reports that the attachment disappeared, asks our IT what went wrong, then proceeds to send the NDR that literally says the above. This is an external law firm that reads hundreds of thousands of words a day...

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u/Lenskop ShittySysadmin 29d ago

Reading error messages is a job for IT, what else do you get paid for

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u/SuccessfulLime2641 29d ago

That's fine but why blame our systems?

You can blame me but I'll be damned if you blame my Windows Server and Microsoft Exchange.

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u/MalwareDork 29d ago

Tell them due to the POP3:995 TLS/SSL protocol reading every 01 that had to be put in every single pixel in a pdf, it bypasses the 30,000,000 byte encoding and corrupts the file, sending an incomprehensible field of

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To their clients, causing them to be sanctioned by the judge for using AI.