Greetings to all,

I am running into an issue where I have a Win2000 SP4 server running IIS and
SMTP service which relays to my Exchange server once it passes through an
open relay filter. I am noticing that a critical automated email that is
sent from a trucking transportation company alerting us that a driver is
being held over and that charges are being billed by the hour are getting
junked into the Bad mail folder. Below the text of the .BAD file that is
generated.


Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

This is a MIME-formatted message.
Portions of this message may be unreadable without a MIME-capable mail
program.

--9B095B5ADSN=_01C4CCE8778767F700000028ts?chip.thechipp
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unicode-1-1-utf-7

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

"Internal Addresses" (my edit)


--9B095B5ADSN=_01C4CCE8778767F700000028ts?chip.thechipp
Content-Type: message/delivery-status

Reporting-MTA: dns;servername.server.com
Received-From-MTA: dns;kllm2.kllm.com
Arrival-Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:43:38 -0600

Final-Recipient: rfc822;Internal address
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550 Requested action not taken: NUL characters are not
allowed.
ok
..bizjournals.com>... Sender ok


Final-Recipient: rfc822;ddangerfield@thechippery.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550 Requested action not taken: NUL characters are not
allowed.
ok
..bizjournals.com>... Sender ok


--9B095B5ADSN=_01C4CCE8778767F700000028ts?chip.thechipp
Content-Type: message/rfc822

Thread-Topic: SHIPMENT# 46250 / KLLM ORD# 0940467
Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
Received: from kllm2.kllm.com ([65.248.80.5]) by servername.server.com with
Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:43:38 -0600
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: External Address
To: Internal address
Cc: Internal Address
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:42 -0600
Subject: NL:SHIPMENT# 46250 / KLLM ORD# 0940467
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="TYARB_____34480616424911170401"
Return-Path: <External Adddress>
Message-ID: <TS-CHIPaJswFCHOzyfy00000014@servername.server.com>
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Nov 2004 22:43:38.0984 (UTC)
FILETIME=[E175EE80:01C4CCF6]

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

--TYARB_____34480616424911170401
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="Windows-1252"



Signature went here.



--TYARB_____34480616424911170401
Content-Type: application/pdf;
name="KLLM DETENTION NOTIFICATION.pdf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="KLLM DETENTION NOTIFICATION.pdf"


Does this have something to do with 8bit MIME and 7bit MIME garbage? I have
been trying to resolve this for some time and need your help desperately.
Thank you in Advance.


--
Thank you for your time and attention to this matter,

Robert Wisian Jr.

OK, maybe (MAYBE) the problem is that this message is sent with the
western European character set (1252) which is probably a DBCS
character set. This will (can) cause nulls to be inserted into the
message text.

Are you in Europe? Is there a reason why the character set 1252
instead of the plain English set is being used? Can the sender switch
to the standard character set?

Try using charset=us-ascii

instead of

charset="Windows-1252"

and see if that helps.

For some reason your message has NULLs in it (NULLs are character
0x00, used in C and C++ to terminate a line, and by Windows to define
the DBCS characterset to ASCII mapping (all DBCS characters with the
first byte of 00 maps to ASCII directly.

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:57:51 -0600, "Junior" <rwisian@thechippery.com>
[quoted text, click to view]

PeterD, the Darkstar Network
To email, fix my address!