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MHS: Incoming Messages Lose 79th Character

Article ID: 124745

Article Last Modified on 3/7/2005

Microsoft Mail Gateway to Novell Message Handling System 3.0

This article was previously published under Q124745

SYMPTOMS

Incoming messages that contain a line longer than 79 characters are wrapped after the 78th column, and the 79th character is deleted.

CAUSE

When OUTPOST.EXE parses a message, it looks for the carriage return- linefeed (CR/LF) combination to indicate the end of the line. The 79th character is not being preserved during this check.

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
   ---------------------
   Outpost.exe   3.0.6

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.

Additional query words: 3.00

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbqfe KB124745