XFOR: Macintosh Attachments Over IMC Are Named Message.txt
Article ID: 164859
Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q164859
SYMPTOMS
Sending multiple attachments across the Internet Mail Connector (IMC)
between two computers running Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 may result in a
message from the System Administrator saying "inbound mail failure - The
message conversion failed." You may receive another message containing a
Message.txt attachment.
CAUSE
The IMC does not validate line counts for binhex bodyparts in inbound
non-MIME messages, due to a fix of an issue on decoding binhex data. For
more information, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge
Base:
164860
XFOR: Garbled Attachments Between Exchange 4.0 and 5.0 IMCs
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, configure the IMCs to transfer messages in
binhex, with TNEF disabled.
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 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):
Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbusage KB164859