XADM: "$" in DDA Value Migrated Incorrectly in X.400 PAB Entry

- Microsoft Exchange Server, version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

After you migrate an X.400 Microsoft Mail Personal Address Book (PAB) entry that contains a dollar sign ($)in the DDA value field and then try to send a message to this address in the Microsoft Exchange client, the message may not be delivered. Something similar to the following is returned to the originator:

   From: System Administrator
   Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 1996 12:16 PM
   Subject: Undeliverable: test using migrated PAB address

   Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

         Subject:test using migrated PAB address
         Sent:11/5/96 12:16:08 PM

   The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

         'X.400' on 11/5/96 12:16:12 PM
               The message was undelivered because the specified recipient
   postal address was incorrect
               MSEXCH:MSExchangeIS:SITE:SERVER

CAUSE

A dollar sign, which was used in Microsoft Mail to signify that the preceding character should not be treated as a delimiter, is not a valid character to be used in a DDA value, according to the CCITT (ITU) X.400 specifications (see More Information for more details). The preliminary check of the address by the Microsoft Exchange Information Store correctly uncovers the invalid character and returns the message to the originator as undeliverable.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem:

• Remove the dollar sign from all DDA values in the PAB before performing the migration.

• Edit the PAB in the Microsoft Exchange client after the migration process is complete and remove the dollar sign.

MORE INFORMATION

During the migration process, when the dollar sign is encountered it is replaced with a forward slash mark or solidus (/). For example, an address that had the following format in Microsoft Mail

  /c=us/admd=attmail/dda.type=id/dda.value=fax(b)7135466286($/User One)

  /c=us/admd=attmail/dda.type=id/dda.value=fax(b)7135466286(//Pete Petree)

ARTICLE-ID: Q159291

TITLE     : XADM: Single Forward Slash Treated as Delimiter in DDA Value

   Capital letters A, .. Z
   Small letters a, .. z
   Digits 0, .. 9
   Space
   Apostrophe '
   Left paren(
   Right paren )
   Plus sign+
   Comma ,
   Hyphen -
   Full stop .
   Solidus /
   Colon :
   Equal sign =
   Question mark ?

STATUS

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