XFOR: Information Store Does Not Recognize Double Angle Brackets Correctly

When you send a text/enriched message (a message that has a content type of text/enriched) through an Exchange Server computer, the information store uses an incorrect tag in the RTF header. This may cause your e-mail client to recognize angle brackets (<>) as HTML tags. If the message contains angle brackets, it may not be displayed correctly in the e-mail client.

For instance, text/enriched mail whose body is "This is <<test>", is delivered. Outlook 98 mail viewer shows only "This is ".

More specifically, the header includes the \fromhtml1 tag, which apparently tells the e-mail client that the message is formatted in HTML (rather than plain text).

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Exchange Server version 5.5. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

Component: Information Store


Component: Directory

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.5. This problem was first corrected in Exchange Server 5.5 Service Pack 3.