WINMAIL.DAT issue in Coexistance environment

[tenaciousC]

Hi All,

Interesting issue here....

We have a scalix / exchange 5.5 coexistance environment.

I have recently migrated some internet mail addresses from the exchange side to the scalix side. (these are address entries for users on external systems).

The internet mail addresses sync'ed back over to exchange fine (using omldapsync) BUT when exchange users use these addresses, any attachments appear as winmail.dat files at the recipient end.

We found the reason for this was that when you double click on one of these addresses in the exchange global address book, a tick box is ticked saying "Always send to this recipient in Microsoft Exchange Rich Text Format".

If we edit the imported user in the 'Scalix Users' container in Exchange and go to the advanced tab and untick 'allow rich text format in messages' the attacments get through OK.

So the main question is, how can this be made default for internet mail users, imported via omldapsync into exchange?

I can manually change them for now, but this is not ideal as there are many!

Any ideas?

Cheers!

C

[ScalixSupport]

Can you please post the output of omshowux and omshowrt -q all

Thanks,

Sascha.

[tenaciousC]

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[root@scalix2 ~]# omshowux
MIME Mailnode     : internet
TNEF Mailnode     : internet,tnef

TNEF Domains      :

Dist List Abbreviation Limit : 0

[root@scalix2 ~]# omshowrt -q all
UNIX       exchange,tnef                                   TNEF
UNIX       internet                                        MIME
UNIX       internet,tnef                                   TNEF
LOCAL      MALMAN
SMINTFC    MALPRE                                          scalix@malpre-linux.malmaison.com
[root@scalix2 ~]#

[ScalixSupport]

The other question is if you have Community or Enterprise edition. If you have Community edition, you will not get the translation from TNEF ( WINMAIL.DAT ) other than by purchasing an Enterprise license.

Unchecking the "allow rich text format in messages" option just converts the message to regular MIME so you don't get true coexistence.

Cheers

Dave

[tenaciousC]

Hi Dave,

This is enterprise.

Cheers!

C

[bguerreiro]

HI, did you get any update on this on your end?
BG

Hi Dave,

This is enterprise.

Cheers!

C