Article ID: 186182
Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q186182
SYMPTOMS
Some Macintosh-based programs create files that are also compatible with
programs that are not Macintosh-based. When you attach these files to a
message and send the message through the Internet Mail Service, the
information store may not recognize the file as a Macintosh file. This
causes the Microsoft Exchange Server computer to encode the file using
UUENCODE instead of BinHex, even if you specified that the file should be
encoded using BinHex in the Exchange client or in the properties for the
Internet Mail Service.
Because the file is encoded using UUENCODE, you are unable to open the
attachment when you view the message in a Macintosh e-mail client. To open
the attachment, you must manually decode the file using a program that is
able to do so.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Exchange Server
version 5.5. This problem has been corrected in the latest U.S. service
pack for Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.5. For information on
obtaining the service pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft
Knowledge Base (without the spaces):
Keywords: kbhotfixserver kbqfe kbbug kbfix KB186182