Microsoft KB Archive/895541

= In Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, when you send an e-mail message to an X.400 recipient whose e-mail address includes a certain character combination, the recipient may not receive the e-mail message =

Article ID: 895541

Article Last Modified on 10/25/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise Edition

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SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, when you send an e-mail message to an X.400 recipient whose e-mail address includes a certain character combination, the recipient may not receive the e-mail message. This issue may occur when the recipient's e-mail address includes one of the following character combinations:

If you examine the Bf0.log file in the :\exchsrvr\MTADATA folder by using an ASN.1 parser, you see that the character combinations are converted into their Unicode equivalents as follows: (a) becomes @ (p) becomes % (b) becomes ! (q) becomes &quot; (u) becomes _ (l) becomes ( (r) becomes )



Service pack information
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Exchange Server 2003. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

836993 How to obtain the latest service packs for Exchange Server 2003

Hotfix information
A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this article. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix might receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next service pack that contains this hotfix.

To resolve this problem, submit a request to Microsoft Online Customer Services to obtain the hotfix. To submit an online request to obtain the hotfix, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6294451

Note If additional issues occur or any troubleshooting is required, you might have to create a separate service request. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for this specific hotfix. To create a separate service request, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support

File information
The English version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.   Date         Time   Version            Size    File name -  26-Apr-2005  03:49  6.5.7233.10     3,590,656  Emsmta.exe



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section. This problem was first corrected in Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2.



MORE INFORMATION
For more information, see Request for Comments (RFC) 1327. To view RFC 1327, visit the following Web site:

http://rfc.activedomain.org/1000-1499/rfc1327.html#28

For more information, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

824684 Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates

817903 New naming schema for Exchange Server software update packages

Additional query words: XADM

Keywords: kbqfe kbhotfixserver kbexchstore kbfix kbbug kbexchange2003presp1fix kbpubtypekc KB895541

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