EdgeTransport.exe crashes when a transport rule sends a rejection message to an empty address

Assume that Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 (SP3) or a later update version of the rollup is installed in your environment. You also have a transport rule configured that uses the if the sender and recipient’s AD Attribute are Evaluation criteria and the send rejection message to sender with enhanced status code action. In this situation, the EdgeTransport.exe process crashes. Additionally, the following event is logged in the Application log:

Event ID:       4999
Level:    Error
Source: MSExchange Common
Task Category: General
Message:  Watson report about to be sent for process id: ProcessID, with parameters: E12, BuildType, ApplicationVersion, edgetransport, M.Exchange.Data, M.E.D.SmtpProxyAddress..ctor, System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException, CallStackHash, AssemblyVersion.
ErrorReportingEnabled: False

The transport rule is triggered when the server tries to deliver a message that has an empty FROM field value to a recipient. The attempt to evaluate the sender and recipient’s AD attribute comparison fails. Therefore, the System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException exception is thrown.

To resolve this issue, install the following update rollup:

To work around this issue, disable or remove the transport rules that use the AD attribute evaluation.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

For more information about the rejection message in a transport rule, go to the following Microsoft website: