Enterprise Vault for Exchange: Attachments links are not created for signed and/or encrypted S/MIME emails

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Article ID: 100039934

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Description

Error Message

There is no error message, this is how normal, signed and encrypted items look after the Enterprise Vault archival (the following with the Mailbox policy / Shortcut content / Display attachments as links)
  • Normal emails
Microsoft Outlook (shortcut body created, attachment link)
 
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Enterprise Vault Search (preview and attachment)

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  • Signed emails
Microsoft Outlook (shortcut body created, no attachment link)
 
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Enterprise Vault Search (preview visible without the attachment)
 
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  • Encrypted emails
Microsoft Outlook (shortcut body not created, no attachment links)
 
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Enterprise Vault Search ("no preview of this item is available. You can download the original item"

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Resolution

The above scenario is by design during the creation of the shortcut body and attachments links for S/MIME emails, the retrieve of any type of messages will properly work and return any attachments

Issue/Introduction

During the archival of signed and/or encrypted Microsoft Outlook S/MIME emails, no attachment link is created in the shortcut body, in addition the shortcut body for encrypted emails also is not created.