Microsoft KB Archive/166615

= XFOR: Message Characters Corrupted When Different Locale Used =

Article ID: 166615

Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q166615





SYMPTOMS
When a computer running Microsoft Exchange Client or a POP3 client is configured with a different code page than the computer running Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.0 uses to send a MIME-encoded message, the message body becomes corrupted.

An example of this scenario is when the Microsoft Exchange Server computer is configured with standard settings (US-ASCII for POP3, ISO-8859-1 for the Internet Mail Service) and the client being used has another code page installed.



CAUSE
The message body becomes corrupted because the MIME header does not match the message body type. This will affect all outbound MIME messages where the code page on the server differs from the client locale.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.0. This problem was corrected in the latest Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 U.S. Service Pack. For information on obtaining the service pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

S E R V P A C K

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