PGP/MIME corrupting Exchange server mailboxes?

Luis R. Rodriguez mcgrof at ruslug.rutgers.edu
Wed Nov 17 16:18:39 CET 2004


I PGP/MIME sign my e-mails at work and our mail server is an Exchange
Server. Now some mailboxes are being moved from one mailstore to another
and apparantly a lot of errors are popping up in logs when this is done.
It seems a lot of my e-mails come up as corrupt. This is only happening
for the e-mail I have sent to peers at work. The only thing I can think
of as the root cause is that I am the only person who PGP/MIME signs my
e-mails.

Now, according to the Official Internet Protocol Standards [1], RFC 2015 is
already an accepted standard. I am still wondering if anyone knows if 
data corruption can occur or has occurred before on mail servers for
PGP/MIME signed e-mails.

The error that pops up looks as follows:

---
- <source>
=C2=A0 =
<database>/dc=3Dnet/dc=3DCompanyName/cn=3DConfiguration/cn=3DServices/cn=3DMic=
rosoft Exchange/cn=3DCompanyName/cn=3DAdministrative Groups/cn=3DFirst =
Administrative =
Group/cn=3DServers/cn=3DMAIL/cn=3DInformationStore/cn=3DFirst Storage =
Group/cn=3DMailbox Store (MAIL1)</database>=20
=C2=A0 </source>
- <badItem errorCode=3D"0x80004005" flags=3D"0x00000000">
=C2=A0 <folder =
id=3D"EF000000198262C0AA6611CD9BC800AA002FC45A0000120002000000001FAC52">M=
ISC</folder>=20
=C2=A0 <sender>Luis Rodriguez</sender>=20
=C2=A0 <recipient>Luis' Co-worker</recipient>=20
=C2=A0 <subject>Some regular e-mail</subject>=20
=C2=A0 <size>676</size>=20
=C2=A0 <dateSent>7/7/2004 10:35 AM</dateSent>=20
=C2=A0 <dateReceived>7/7/2004 10:35 AM</dateReceived>=20
=C2=A0 =
<sourceKey>3FF3339124FCE741867D958113CD63DC00000020164A</sourceKey>=20
=C2=A0 </badItem>
---

I have done some searching on what error code 80004005 may mean and the
only thing relevant I can find is a problem with exchange on "use of 
quotation mark (") character in name of storage group using 
Exchange Management Object" [2] -- whater the hell this means.

Any feedback would be welcomed. 

Thanks.

[1] http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcxx00.html
[2] http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;256420&spid=1773&sid=global

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