[Message is currently being held in the possible spam queue for manual release. I do not have authority to release it]
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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.
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Good Day
I have the following error. Kindly let me know how to resolve it
This message is in MIME format since your Mail reader does not understand this information some or all of this message may not be legible. Is this problem coming from the server (Exchange 5.5) or from the clients machines?
Regards, Rachel
Rachel, you will see that error message when someone sends a MIME formatted e-mail to a mail reader that either does not understand MIME, or has MIME disabled for security reasons.
E-Mail traditionally is PLAIN-TEXT only. MIME is an optional enhancement that should only be used when you know that the recipiant wants to receive it.
The SAMBA mailing lists will remove all but the plain text portions of a posting, and any attachements that are not plain-text.
This can leave message like that in posting, particularly when spam gets through. The MIME part of the spam will not get through.
Your message was sent in MIME, and that may be reasont that the SAMBA spam filter flagged it as possible spam for manual moderation.
I would recommend that you set your e-mail program to send in plain-text by default when mailing out to the public internet, and only turn on HTML or RICH TEXT when you are sending to someone that you know wants to accept MIME formatted e-mails. This will help prevent content filters from misclassifying your e-mail.
Almost all spam or viruses are sent in HTML format, so the presence of the HTML and the tag that your mailer put on the message are one of the key metrics that a content based spam filter looks for.
Some people will go so far as to automatically delete unread all MIME encoded e-mails.
In addition, if your e-mail program is displaying HTML by default, and opening external links for pictures automatically, it can give out information to spammers automatically.
When an e-mail program opens a link in the spam, it uses your web browser program to do so. That link at a minimum tells the spammer that your mail server is accepting their spam, so that they can target more spam to your domain.
The link can also have your e-mail address encoded in it, which confirms to the spammer that your e-mail address is live and that their spam is getting through to it. In addtion some web browsers will happily give out your e-mail address to web sites that ask for it.
-John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal Opinion Only
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