Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/06/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is a mistake in the installation and configuration of the Microsoft Exchange server at Chuck Warman's company. Microsoft Exchange works in the following way. When you send mail within your group, the mail just sits on the server, and the "check mail" operation tells you what is in your part of the server but doesn't really move it anywhere. It's like leaving messages on the refrigerator. When you send mail within a company or group, you are able to put all manner of fancy stuff into the message for your recipient to see. That fancy stuff is encoded in a way that cannot be transmitted over the Internet. When you send mail to somebody outside your workgroup, your computer hands it to the Exchange Server and says "please send this". If the Exchange Server looks at the message and notes that it uses any fancy features, then it automatically appends a binary file to the end of the message, one which is intelligible only to another Microsoft Exchange server, that allows the receiving server to reconstruct the fancy stuff. An Exchange server should be configured not to do this. However, if you don't use font changes, underlining, italics, boldface, or special characters in your message, and if you use only a fixed-width font then it will probably not send the thing in the first place.