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From: John Allen
We are now creating our own email messages
(MIME files) with as many attachments as we want.


I don't know that much about MIME protocol, but I suspect that Exchange is creating the ATT00001.TXT attachment based on MIME headers embedded in the data stream. Content-Type and Content-Transfer-Encoding headers, perhaps. Or maybe a Multipart header? Are you using a tool for generating MIME headers?

My Yahoo mail reader shows the following headers in your original post, for example. But it didn't generate an attachment:

From: "John Allen"
To: <MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Creating & sending MIME file causing ATT00001.TXT attachment
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:42:22 -0500
Message-ID: <8AB3471C302B422AA1B5121E88F7C91D@richard>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Thread-Index: AclccDkP6PMRkofhQC+p3C5AA/fpOw== please include it with any abuse report [69.3.23.28]); Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:09:01 -0600 (CST) rivendell.midrange.com
Precedence: list
Reply-To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
List-Id: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l.midrange.com>
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l>, <mailto:midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l>
List-Post: <mailto:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
List-Help: <mailto:midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l>, <mailto:midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Errors-To: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Content-Length: 1221




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