XCLN: Location of Attachments Is Shifted When Message Is Forwarded

• Microsoft Exchange Windows 3.x client, version 5.0
• Microsoft Exchange Windows 95/98 client, version 5.0
• Microsoft Exchange Windows NT client, version 5.0
• Microsoft Outlook Windows 95/98 client, versions 8.00, 8.01, 8.02, 8.03, 8.5
• Microsoft Outlook Windows NT client, versions 8.00, 8.01, 8.02, 8.03, 8.5

SYMPTOMS

When you attach files vertically in a message body, send the message to yourself, and then forward the message again to yourself, the location of the attachments is shifted in the forwarded message. This happens only in the double-byte character set (DBCS) client.

CAUSE

The problem is caused by a MAPI failure to add the current message body position to the new offset.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Exchange Server version 5.5. For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q191014 XGEN: How to Obtain the Latest Exchange Server 5.5 Service Pack

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the products listed above. This problem was first corrected in Exchange Server 5.5 Service Pack 2.

Keywords          : exc55sp2fix XCLN 
Version           : 8.0, 8.01, 8.02, 8.03, 8.5, 5.0
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug 

Last Reviewed: April 10, 1999