Hello

i have a very strange behavior found in Windows 2003 IIS SMTP service
(CDOSYS)

I'm mailing html mails with the CDOSYS object from an ASP page.

Whenever there is a period (.) at position 174 of a line in a html
message, the mail server breaks the mail and sends out a very crippeled
version of the html message.

You can try it by sending a HTML mail with CDOSYS with this string in
it:
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=NL-BE>De
Europese Unie wil inreisvisa voor reizigers van buiten de unie vanaf
begin 2007 aanzienlijk duurder maken. Visa zullen vanaf dan ook
biometrische gegevens van de reiziger vermelden. Een Schengen-Visum zou
tussen 35 en 60 euro kosten.

Check out the period . at position 174, that will cause the mail to
render complete wrong.

Has anyone noticed this before and is there a workaround for this?

I already have the DisableDotStuff... set via Metabase Editor, but that
does not solve it.

Many thanks!

Can you post the version of Windows 2003 you're using including hotfixes?

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Windows Server 2003
Web Edition
Service Pack 1

with these security updates:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=896422
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=883939
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=896428
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=890046
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=896358
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=898715
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=896727
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=899587
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=893756
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=899588
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=899591
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=901214
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=901017
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=900725
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=902400
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=899589
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=905414
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=896688
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=904706
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=896424
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=910437
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=905915
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=912919
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=908519
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=911564
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=911927
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=913446

That is strange. I've seen odd ones before like this:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=885419 but that's pretty obscure.
Can you verify that your line wrap isn't set to 174?

If everything else seems straight, I'd suggest filing a bug with support to
get that fixed.

Al


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