Attachment being stripped : Exchange Server 2000/Group Wise issue

[brendaluv]

here we go...

the recipients on the Exchange2000-sp3 box have 2 SMTP addresses associated to each account, 1 for the old domain and one for the new domain. (we recently merged with another department, 1 network is Microsoft driven and the other, Novell.

to my understanding, the external mail hits the Groupwise server, then routes the message to the Exchange2000 box.

our problem is this : if someone sends an email with an attachment using the old domain adrs, no problem. but when using the new SMTP representing the new domain, the attachement is stripped and added to the Message Body, it looks something like this :

------_=_NextPart_001_01C3D9D9.E649FAA0
Content-Type: application/ms-tnef;
name="winmail.dat"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
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At this point i'm thinking the problem is with GroupWise since it is routing the messages to the exchange box.

if you have any questions that could hepl us resolve this, pls do not hesitate to ask!

thanks and happy new year!

 

[NNIsarahd]

Check out:

http://ask.support.microsoft.com/de...port/kb/articles/q138/0/53.asp&NoWebContent=1

The Microsoft site explains how to prevent this from showing up in other people's boxes.

And the Webopedia information on winmail.dat and what it is and a little behind it:

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/T/TNEF.html