I've seen similar errors from 5.5 servers, which were traced back to bad NDS entries I believe.
-----Original Message----- From: Haris Dechapunya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 1:47 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Permanent errors with messages to UNIX host - data format error We have a problem with messages bouncing back from a UNIX host with the following error message, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The original message was received at Sun, 20 Jan 2002 10:34:44 +1300 (NZDT) from rata.vuw.ac.nz [130.195.2.11] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- austens: Message contains non-ASCII characters in headers 501 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Data format error ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - The explanation from the recipient is that some SMTP servers don't strictly adhere to an RFC and Exchange Server is one of them. They are filtering out incorrect headers on this UNIX mail server. We have tested from other Exchange 5.5 Servers running both SP3 and SP4 and have not had the error message. As far as we can see the system configurations are almost identical. The only difference around the perimeter as we are using Proxy Server 2.0. The full header is included below and you can see some miscellaneous characters in the name of our Exchange Server (COMMS) which we cannot work out what they are or how they got there. Any help, pointers would be appreciated. Regards, Haris ------------------------------------------------------------- Received: from rata.vuw.ac.nz ([130.195.2.11]) by comms.branz.org.nz with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id D2X5JHQV; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 10:34:44 +1300 Received: from matai.vuw.ac.nz (matai.vuw.ac.nz [130.195.2.13]) by rata.vuw.ac.nz (8.10.1/8.10.1.4) with ESMTP id g0JLYi205527 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 10:34:44 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from localhost (localhost) by matai.vuw.ac.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with internal id KAA24200; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 10:34:44 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 10:34:44 +1300 (NZDT) From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status; boundary="KAA24200.1011476084/matai.vuw.ac.nz" Subject: Returned mail: Data format error Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure) This is a MIME-encapsulated message --KAA24200.1011476084/matai.vuw.ac.nz --KAA24200.1011476084/matai.vuw.ac.nz Content-Type: message/delivery-status --KAA24200.1011476084/matai.vuw.ac.nz Content-Type: message/rfc822 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from rata.vuw.ac.nz (rata.vuw.ac.nz [130.195.2.11]) by matai.vuw.ac.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA16713 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 10:34:44 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from comms.branz.org.nz (proxy.branz.org.nz [203.97.237.174]) by rata.vuw.ac.nz (8.10.1/8.10.1.4) with ESMTP id g0JLYh209276 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 10:34:43 +1300 (NZDT) Received: by COMM�$"�S with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <D2X5JHQ4>; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 10:34:43 +1300 Message-ID: <0D94E49D52E0D01181840000F8040B97014F36DF@COMME$"aS> From: Haris Dechapunya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 10:33:56 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C1A130.FFADFFE0" This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C1A130.FFADFFE0 Content-Type: text/plain ------_=_NextPart_001_01C1A130.FFADFFE0 Content-Type: text/html ------_=_NextPart_001_01C1A130.FFADFFE0-- --KAA24200.1011476084/matai.vuw.ac.nz-- _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
