XFOR: cc:Mail Connector Does Not Return File Attachments On NDRs

ID: Q184624

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Exchange Server, version 5.0

SYMPTOMS

When the cc:Mail connector is unable to resolve a cc:Mail address, it sends an NDR (non-delivery report) back to the sender. This NDR, however, is generic and lists all the cc:Mail recipients. The NDR does not indicate which recipient address is bad.

The NDR contains the following:

"This messages is From: cc:Mail Connector Interchange."

The subject line is the original subject line preceded by the text

"Undeliverable:"

A new text body is created to notify the user that the message could not be delivered to one or more recipient addresses.

The original text body of the messages is also attached to the messages.

All other text and file attachments are discarded.

In cc:Mail when a message is addressed to a non existent user at a remote postoffice (PO), the message is forwarded to the remote PO, and may be rejected prior to delivery by the cc:Mail router session that connects directly to that remote PO. The message is returned to the sender with the following changes:

The "Forwarded by" (or From) block is changed to the user's name.

A forwarding history is created in the message to indicate the reason why the mail was returned.

The subject line is replaced by "Message not deliverable."

The original subject is contained in the forwarding history.

The message body is not changed.

The NDRs generated by cc:Mail back to the mailbox on the Exchange Server computer list the unresolved recipients.

CAUSE

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Exchange Server version 5.0. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.


Keywords          : XFOR 
Version           : WINDOWS:5.0
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: April 8, 1999