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Q152915: XFOR: Messages Inbound from IMC Include Body as Attachment

Article: Q152915
Product(s): Microsoft Exchange
Version(s): winnt:4.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbusage
Last Modified: 15-DEC-2000

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Exchange, version 4.0 
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SYMPTOMS
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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
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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

When you open the message, the actual message body is in an attachment called
Message Body.

STATUS
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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):

  S E R V P A C K

Additional query words: message body.txt bdy.txt

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Keywords          : kbusage 
Technology        : kbZNotKeyword6 kbExchangeSearch kbExchange400 kbExchangeClientSearch kbZNotKeyword2
Version           : winnt:4.0

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