Hello, I have a domain (2003 and 2008 r2 dc's) with exchange 2003 with 2007 mixed. I have almost moved everything to 2007 but am running into an interesting scenario with public folders. I have a folder that is mail enabled. It is owned and replicated both by 2007 and 2003 exchange servers. The purpose of this public folder is only to capture email and retain the last 30 worth days of one of our Unix team's project messages. If I send a message to the email address that the public folder has through outlook it successfully sends. I can also right click in outlook and post a message properly (subject, body, date stamps.. everything). They tell me that they can't send to that email address... So then I (from my windows 7 workstation) telnet to the exchange 2003 smtp server on port 25: helo domain.local mail from: me rcpt to: address data subject: test bodytest . and it all goes through as I'd expect. Now since I will be removing 2003 soon, I should test this from the 2007 smtp server on port 25... same test.. helo domain.local mail from: me rcpt to: address data subject: test bodytest . In the public folder, I do get a message, sender info comes through, subject comes through, blank body. What the...?? I've tried multple scenario's, same situation. I've even removed the 2003 replica and did the same test, no good. I can't seem to find anything on this. Performing the same test to my MAILBOX gets the same issue - blank body. Now I do know that their problem (unix team) is different than my problem, since they are not getting any message to the folder.. I at this point am more interested in my problem first. I've checked around on the internet for some time and cannot find a reason why. Can anyone assist? Thanks in advance -Mike

And what happens when you send from a mail client? :) Per RFC 5322: The body is simply a sequence of characters that follows the header section and is separated from the header section by an empty line You need a space after the subject. So after the subject, hit the enter key twice. helo domain.local mail from: me rcpt to: address data subject: test bodytest .