Microsoft KB Archive/119356

= Multi-Language Clients Append Extended Headers =

Article ID: 119356

Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Mail Client 3.2

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This article was previously published under Q119356



SYMPTOMS
In messages sent from the English version of the Microsoft Mail Windows client to another language version of the Windows client, the extended header information is added to the text of the message.

If you send a message from a particular language version of Microsoft Mail for Windows to the same language version of Microsoft Mail for Windows through the Microsoft Mail Connector, and the language selected in the Primary Language For Clients box in the properties for the Microsoft Mail Connector does not match the version of Microsoft Mail for Windows receiving the message, the extended header information is added to the text of the message.



CAUSE
The English-language client uses language-specific characters to locate the header information fields. The English-language client reads the extended header information and appends it to the beginning of the message body when it is unable to recognize the foreign language-specific labels.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, match the primary language in the Microsoft Mail Connector to the language of the client.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Mail for Windows version 3.2.



MORE INFORMATION
Extended header information examples are listed below:

English to Spanish:

  TO: test                  DATE: 03-08-94 CC:                      TIME: 12:44 PM   SUBJECT: att PRIORITY: ATTACHMENTS: xls.xls Spanish to English:

  Microsoft Mail v3.0 IPM.Microsoft Mail.Note De: test Para: Administrator Asunto: spanish version to english version Fecha: 1994-03-10 13:05 Prioridad: Ident. del mensaje: DE0CFCA6Ident. del Mensaje principal: B4A878C0 Ident. de la conversacion: B4A878C0 German to English:

  Microsoft Mail v3.0 IPM.Microsoft Mail.Note Von: Administrator An: Postmaster Betreff: AW: Huge message header Datum: 1994-08-08 09:03 Prioritat: Nachrichten-ID: C7F3A747 Conversation ID: C7F3A747 This behavior is also exhibited when you use Exchange Server's MSMI. For example, if you send a message from a Spanish client to an Exchange Server MSMI (with the Primary Language set to English) and then to another Spanish client, the English header information is displayed in the body of the message.

If the MSMI has the "Primary Language" set to "English", the headers are also deposited into the body of the message. If the MSMI has the "Primary Language" set to "Spanish", the message is interpreted correctly by the client.

Exchange Server rewrites the entire Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) file outbound, and uses the "Primary Language" setting to determine how to rewrite the headers.

To change the "Primary Language" used by the MSMI, on the Microsoft Mail Connector property page, click the Interchange page, the setting is "Primary Language for Clients".

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