SMTP: When Gateway UUENCODEs Attachments

ID: Q118530

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Mail Gateway to SMTP, version 3.0

Version 3.0 of the Microsoft Mail Gateway to SMTP uuencodes attachments that contain characters outside the ASCII character set. Because the Microsoft Word formatting characters are outside the ASCII character set, the SMTP Gateway uuencodes attached files save in Word format.

The Gateway does not uuencode an attachment if you save a document in Word as:

MS-DOS text

text only

text only with linebreaks

MS-DOS text with linebreaks

MS-DOS text with layout

text with layout

rich text format

The uuencode used is SUN's version 5. This is not configurable.

Additional query words: 3.00 SMTP uuencode attachments

Keywords : MailGWSMTP
Version : MS-DOS:3.0
Platform : MS-DOS
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