XFOR: Reply Address Wrong in cc:Mail Enterprise to Enterprise ADE Relationship

ID: Q184052

The information in this article applies to:

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SYMPTOMS

In the following setup, an Exchange Server computer is connected to a HUB PO1 (via the Exchange Connector for Lotus cc:Mail), which has child postoffices linked to it via the Automatic Directory Exchange (ADE) relationships. A HUB PO2 is connected (via ADE) to HUB PO1; HUB PO2 also has child post offices. The problem is as follows:

When you send from a postoffice under HUB PO1, everything works fine. But when you send from a postoffice under HUB PO2, the reply address is wrong, resulting in Exchange users not being able to reply to cc:Mail messages that originated from child postoffices connected to HUB PO2.


CAUSE

An Exchange Connector for Lotus cc:Mail that is connected to either HUB of the enterprise boundary only recognizes the true address of users belonging to the same side. However, messages relayed to Exchange from the opposite side of the boundary carry their true downstream address in the sender field.

For example, to reproduce this behavior, do the following:

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  1. Run the Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe).


  2. Under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE subtree, go to the following subkey: 
    
    SYSTEM\Current ControlSet\Services\MSExchangeCCMC\Parameters


  3. Set the "Save a copy of the imported files" registry key to 1.


  4. Send a message from Exchange to cc:Mail.


  5. In the file in the \exchsrvr\ccmcdata\import.bak directory, you should see something like the following: 
    
      Message:
      179
      From: Grewal, Jeff at Hub
      Date: 6/2/98 8:39
      To: Admin at HUBPO2
      Subject: Another message
      Contents:
      58
      Text item:
      32
      This is the message body


The issue is that the To: line contains the recipient address with the "at HUBPO2". This causes the cc:Mail postoffice that is connected to the Exchange Connector for Lotus cc:Mail to reject the message with recipient unknown, because addresses here are of the form "at HUBPO1".


WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, add all downstream postoffices of HUB PO2 into HUB PO1.


RESOLUTION

A fix has been coded to have the Exchange Connector for Lotus cc:Mail recognize a registry setting that turns off sending the "at PO" information on imported messages to cc:Mail. This way, the process uses cc:Mail Automatic Name Resolution (ANR) to resolve the name to an entry in the "directory" for cc:Mail, thus making the message deliverable across the ADE relationship.

Note that this is a registry-based behavior with the default=OFF.

After applying the hotfix detailed below, make the following registry changes:

To turn on the new behavior (that is, make the Exchange Connector for Lotus cc:Mail use cc:Mail Automatic Name Resolution), you must add the DWORD registry value:

  1. Run the Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe).


  2. Under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE subtree, go to the following subkey: 
    
    SYSTEM\Current ControlSet\Services\MSExchangeCCMC\Parameters\Use ANR


  3. Set "Use ANR" registry key to 1.


For example, to reproduce this new behavior, do the following:

  1. Run the Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe).


  2. Under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE subtree, go to the following subkey: 
    
    SYSTEM\Current ControlSet\Services\MSExchangeCCMC\Parameters


  3. Set "Save a copy of the imported files" registry key to 1.


  4. Send a message from Exchange to cc:Mail.


  5. In the file in the \exchsrvr\ccmcdata\import.bak directory, you should see something like the following: 
    
      Message:
      179
      From: Grewal, Jeff at Hub
      Date: 6/2/98 8:39
      To: Admin
      Subject: Another message
      Contents:
      58
      Text item:
      32
      This is the message body


Note that the postoffice name is omitted from the To: line.

NOTE: After enabling the "Use ANR" feature, it is recommended that you do a dirsync. Otherwise, the addresses may be in an encapsulated format.


STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.0.

A supported fix is now available, but has not been fully regression-tested and should be applied only to systems experiencing this specific problem. Unless you are severely impacted by this specific problem, Microsoft recommends that you wait for the next Service Pack that contains this fix. Contact Microsoft Technical Support for more information.

This hotfix has been posted to the following Internet location as Psp2ccma.exe and Psp2ccmi.exe:

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/exchange/exchange-public/fixes/Eng/Exchg5.0/Post-SP2-CCM

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.5. This problem has been corrected in the latest U.S. Service Pack for Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.5. For information about 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 


Keywords          : kbusage XFOR 
Version           : 5.0,5.5
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: April 7, 1999