You are the Exchange administrator for your company. The Exchange organisation contains a single server that runs Exchange Server 2003.
The Exchange server supports POP3, IMAP4 and MAPI clients.
Company employees use various client software applications for e-mail.
POP3 users report that they receive a Winmail.dat attachment on every e-mail message that they recieve. The attached file contains only random characters.
You need to ensure that POP3 users do not receive Winmail.dat attachments.
What should you do on the POP3 virtual server ?
A.
Configure the character set to US ASCII.
B.
Configure the message encoding format to MIME.
C.
Configure the message encoding format to UUENCODE.
D.
Disable support of rich-text formatting.
Explanation:
The Message Format tab in Exchange Server 2003 is used to configure the way that MAPI messages are converted when retrieved
by a Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) client. You can choose the MIME encoding type and the character set. You can also
choose whether to send messages to POP3 clients in Exchange Rich Text format, Standard Text format, or both. The Exchange Rich
Text format will not be used if HTML formatting is selected in Outlook. You should only select the Exchange Rich Text format option if
every client that will be connecting to this virtual server supports Exchange Rich Text Format. Incompatible clients will display blank
messages with unviewable file attachments called winmail.dat. The winmail.dat file contains all the rich text formatting information for
the message.
Incorrect Answers:
A. Many mail systems that do not use the US ASCII character set for text. Enforcing this format will result in any email server
that uses a non US ASCII character set to generate the same winmail.dat file.
B. When the MIME encoding format is used, disallowed characters are replaced with plain text
where possible, but no winmail.dat file is generated. If a POP3 client can�t utilize rich text formatting, this file remains in the
message, and contains unprintable characters.
C. UUEncode takes a binary file and converts to 7 bit ASCII. This is used in news groups to convert a binary file such as a
photograph to ASCII text.