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XFOR: MAPI Embedded Message may NDR Due to Invalid Recipient

Article ID: 196920

Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006


APPLIES TO


This article was previously published under Q196920

SYMPTOMS

If you create a message to an Internet recipient without doing a Check Names on that recipient, and embed that message into a second message to an Internet recipient, the message may fail with the following non-delivery report (NDR):
   Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

         Subject:Unknown
         Sent:10/11/98 10:57:28 AM

   The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

         'user@microsoft.com' on 10/11/96 10:58:39 AM
               A syntax error was detected in the content of the message
               MSEXCH:IMC:Microsoft:ORG:SITE
				

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Exchange Server version 4.0.

MORE INFORMATION

The above behavior does not occur if the recipient of the second message is in the local Exchange Server directory.

Additional query words: NDR embedded resolve

Keywords: kbprb KB196920