XCLN: Text Files Sent from Macintosh via IMC are Corrupted
Article ID: 157004
Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Exchange Client 4.0 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q157004
SYMPTOMS
When you create a text file on a Macintosh and attach it to a message that
you send from the Microsoft Exchange Macintosh client over the Microsoft
Exchange Internet Mail Connector (IMC), the file might contain extra
characters at the beginning of the file. This will occur when the IMC is
set up to use MIME to encode messages.
CAUSE
This problem is caused by the IMC converting these files to a MIME Content-
Type of Text/AppleFile instead of Application/AppleFile.
WORKAROUND
- Strip the .TXT extension from the file before sending it.
- Run ResEdit against the .TXT file before sending it. This will add a
Resource Fork and will be sent as a correct AppleDouble file.
- Always send to the recipient in RTF format. This sends all messages in a
Application/MS-TNEF format which works fine if your sending to a system
that understands this MIME type, usually another IMC.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft Exchange
clients, version 4.0, listed at the beginning of this article. This problem
was corrected in Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 U.S. Service Pack 4. For
information on obtaining the service pack, query on the following word in
the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):
Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbusage KB157004