Article ID: 159303
Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q159303
SYMPTOMS
When you send a mail message that has no message body from a foreign X.400 system, it will not be delivered through Microsoft Exchange Server. The message may be returned to the originator with a non-delivery report (NDR). Microsoft Exchange server may log the following event in the Application Event Log:
CAUSE
If a foreign system passes a message and includes a General Text Body Part tag, the Microsoft Exchange message transfer agent (MTA) expects character set information. It is considered non-conformant to include a General Text Body Part without any character set information.
Some systems will still send a General Text Body Part even in the absence of a message body, but Microsoft Exchange Server will do not do this.
STATUS
The Microsoft Exchange MTA has been modified to assume a General Body Text type of IA5 in the absence of character set information.
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Exchange version 4.0. This problem was corrected in the latest Microsoft Exchange 4.0 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
Additional query words: non conformant message body IA5 NDR delivery
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