Direct Mailer Changes Attachment Names to ATT#####

ID: Q222128

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Site Server version 3.0

SYMPTOMS

Direct Mailer can be configured to send an attachment by adding the following tag to the mail template:


<META NAME="DmailAttachment"
CONTENT="http://servername/directory/file.exe">

When the attachment is sent, the file is renamed as ATT#####.att. For example, Migrate.exe appears as ATT00001.att.

CAUSE

The message body property PID_ATT_FILENAME is not set to the file name. Therefore a name is automatically assigned by Inetcomm.dll.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Site Server 3.0. For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q219292 How to Obtain the Latest Site Server 3.0 Service Pack

STATUS

This problem was first corrected in Site Server 3.0 Service Pack 3.

MORE INFORMATION

If the message template is sent in HTML format, then the following MUST be true for the attachments to be named properly. The attachment path specified in the DMailAttachment meta tag MUST MATCH the HTML tag that references that file attachment. If they differ in any way, including case, then the attachment will be given the generated ATT#####.att name.

Additional query words:

Keywords : SS3SP3Fix
Version : winnt:3.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbbug