XFOR: Messages Inbound from IMC Include Body as Attachment

• Microsoft Exchange Server, version 4.0, Service Pack 2

SYMPTOMS

After you apply Microsoft Exchange Service Pack 2 to a Microsoft Exchange Server running the Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Connector (IMC), the message body of an incoming message might appear as an attachment.

CAUSE

When MIME encoded messages are received by the IMC with a Content-Type of Text/Plain and a parameter of Name= following it, the message body text is converted to an attachment with the name given in the Name= parameter.

For example:

   Date: 8 Aug 1996 12:56:10 -0400
   From: "User One" <User1@your.domain.name.here.edu>
   Subject: Mail test from QM
   To: "My Friend" <myfriend@his.domain.name.here.com>
   Mime-Version: 1.0
   Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; Name="Message Body"
   Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
   Subject:Mail test

   mail test from QM

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Exchange Server version 4.0. This problem was corrected in the latest Microsoft Exchange Service Pack. For information on obtaining the Service Pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

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