Article ID: 975918 - Last Review: January 22, 2010 - Revision: 1.0

When an IMAP4 client sends a FETCH (bodystructure) request to a server that is running the Exchange Server 2007 IMAP4 service, a corrupted response is sent as a reply

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SYMPTOMS

When an Internet Message Access Protocol version 4 (IMAP4) client sends a FETCH (bodystructure) request for a specific message to a server that is running Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, the Exchange 2007 server returns an incorrect response that the IMAP4 client interprets as a corrupted message.
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CAUSE

This issue occurs when the Exchange 2007 server responds to a FETCH (bodystructure) request. The response message does not contain a Content-Transfer-Encoding field in the MIME header of each body part of the message. When this field is missing, the Exchange 2007 server sets the body-fld-enc parameter of the Content-Transfer-Encoding field to the NIL value. However, according to RFC 3501, this parameter should be set to 7BIT value. According to RFC 3501, the body-fld-enc parameter may only contain the following string values
  • 7BIT
  • 8BIT
  • BINARY
  • BASE64
  • QUOTED-PRINTABLE
If the body-fld-enc parameter contains the NIL value, some IMAP4 clients might exhibit unexpected behavior when they receive such a response from the Exchange 2007 server.

For more information about the Content-Transfer-Encoding field and the body-fld-enc parameter, visit the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to review the following RFCs:
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RESOLUTION

To resolve this issue, download and install Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2.
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Prerequisites

The following list contains prerequisites for the update rollup:
  • You must have Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 installed to install this update rollup. For more information about how to obtain the latest Exchange Server 2007 service pack, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
    937052  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937052/ ) How to obtain the latest service pack or update rollup for Exchange 2007
For more information about Update Rollup 2, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
972076  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972076/ ) Description of Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2
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APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2, when used with:
    • Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Enterprise Edition
    • Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Standard Edition
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