MHS: Blank Subject Line

ID: Q130436

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Mail Gateway to MHS, version 3.0

SYMPTOMS

Microsoft Mail Gateway to MHS displays a /u (with an umlaut) and a blank subject line on an incoming MHS message.

CAUSE

This problem is caused by the Notification-Correlator field. It is not in the SMF-70 specification governing MHS, and the gateway is not designed to handle it.

RESOLUTION

A supported fix that corrects this problem is now available from Microsoft, but has not been fully regression-tested and should be applied only to systems experiencing this specific problem.

To resolve this problem, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the fix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services phone numbers and information on support costs, please go to the following address on the World Wide Web:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/supportnet/default.asp

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:


   File Name     Version
   ---------------------
   Outpost.exe   3.0.8

This hotfix has been posted to the following Internet location as Mhsgy2k.exe:

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/mail/pcmail-public/all-y2k/

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Mail Gateway to MHS version 3.0.

MORE INFORMATION

The gateway has been changed to ignore lines that do not contain a field header, except for lines that are continuations of previous ones. The ignored information will be passed through the gateway untouched, to the intended Microsoft Mail recipient.

Additional query words: 3.00 dieresis diaraesis

Keywords : MailGWMHS
Version : MS-DOS:3.0
Platform : MS-DOS
Issue type : kbbug