Microsoft KB Archive/103800

= MHS: INPOST.EXE Strips Local User Aliases from To: Line =

Article ID: 103800

Article Last Modified on 10/30/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Mail Gateway to Novell Message Handling System 3.0

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This article was previously published under Q103800



SYMPTOMS
If a Microsoft Mail for PC Networks user composes mail to multiple user types (local postoffice users and MHS users), the Inpost program (INPOST.EXE) correctly routes mail to MHS. However, when the MHS users receive the mail, they do not see any of the local users in the To: field, they see only the MHS type users in this field.



CAUSE
In keeping with Standard Message Format (SMF) 64, 70, and 71 specification, the To: field is a text field that contains a list of recipient names. (It is the 12th field from the top when you specify the -h option on the command line to activate header information.) However, because the SMF specification does not require that local aliases be retained, the Microsoft Mail Gateway to MHS does not retain this information.



RESOLUTION
A supported fix that corrects this problem is now available from Microsoft, but has not been fully regression-tested and should be applied only to systems experiencing this specific problem.

To resolve this problem, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the fix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services phone numbers and information on support costs, please go to the following address on the World Wide Web:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;CNTACTMS

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:   File Name    Version Inpost.exe  3.0.10 This hotfix has been posted to the following Internet location as Mhsgy2k.exe:

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/mail/gateways-public/All-Y2K/



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Mail Gateway to MHS version 3.0.



MORE INFORMATION
The message below originally had a total of four recipients: two Microsoft local users and two MHS users. However, MHS (INPOST.EXE) has removed the Microsoft local users from the To: field.   Send-to: admin @ CHIMHS, andy @ chimhs Hop-count: 1 Sender: andy@chimhs {MAIL32/CHICAGO/andy} Message-encoding: IBM-437 MCB-options: NNYOANA MCB-type: 0 Date-posted: 25-May-93 11:16:18 SMF-version: 70 Error-report: 0 MHS-id: 43FA012C8117D4D1 From: andy@chimhs {MAIL32/CHICAGO/andy} >>>    To: admin@CHIMHS, andy@chimhs Subject: Multi Test # 2 Date: 25-May-93 09:40 Importance: Low Message-id: 45FA012C8117D4D1 Via-host: Hometown.Hometown

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