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Article ID: 936743 - Last Review: May 21, 2007 - Revision: 1.0

The whole e-mail message is unreadable when you attach a disclaimer message to an outgoing e-mail message in Antigen 9.0 for Exchange or in Antigen 9.0 for SMTP Gateways

Important This article contains information about how to modify the registry. Make sure that you back up the registry before you modify it. Make sure that you know how to restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up, restore, and modify the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
256986  (http://kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=256986/ ) Description of the Microsoft Windows registry

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Antigen 9.0 for Microsoft Exchange or in Microsoft Antigen 9.0 for SMTP Gateways, you try to use the Add Outbound Disclaimer function to attach a disclaimer message to an outgoing e-mail message. When you do this, the whole e-mail message is unreadable when the e-mail message is delivered to the recipient.

CAUSE

This problem occurs if the disclaimer message includes non-US-ASCII characters. By default, Antigen formats the e-mail message in the basic Internet encoding standard when Antigen adds a disclaimer message. The basic Internet encoding standard is the UTF7 encoding standard. However, many languages include characters that are not included in the UTF7 encoding standard. Therefore, non-US-ASCII characters are not represented correctly after Antigen processes the e-mail message.

By default, Antigen formats the e-mail message in the UTF7 encoding standard even if the original e-mail message from the sender is in a different character set. For example, Antigen does this even if the original e-mail message is in the ISO-8859-1 character set.

RESOLUTION

Warning Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly by using Registry Editor or by using another method. These problems might require that you reinstall the operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that these problems can be solved. Modify the registry at your own risk.

To resolve this problem in Antigen for Exchange, follow these steps:
  1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
  2. Expand the following registry subkey:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sybari Software\Antigen for Exchange
  3. Right-click Antigen for Exchange, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
  4. To name the new value, type ForceDisclaimerNonUTF7, and then press ENTER.
  5. Right-click ForceDisclaimerNonUTF7, and then click Modify.
  6. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
To resolve this problem in Antigen for SMTP, follow these steps:
  1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
  2. Expand the following registry subkey:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sybari Software\Antigen for SMTP
  3. Right-click Antigen for SMTP, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
  4. To name the new value, type ForceDisclaimerNonUTF7, and then press ENTER.
  5. Right-click ForceDisclaimerNonUTF7, and then click Modify.
  6. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.

APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft Antigen for Exchange
  • Microsoft Antigen for SMTP Gateways
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