Some exported emails from Arctera Insight eDiscovery display blank contents

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Description

Error Message

No error message is displayed. 

Cause

If an email is sent using Rich Text Format (RTF) while TNEF is enabled, the EML message will have an attached file called winmail.dat.

The Content-Type in the header information of the EML message will show as follows:
Content-Type: application/ms-tnef; name="winmail.dat"
 

Resolution

Determine if TNEFEnabled is set to true in the Exchange environment.

  1. From Exchange Management Shell run the following command:

Get-RemoteDomain | Select Name, DomianName, TNEFEnabled

  1. If TNEFEnabled = True for the Remote Domain then set it as disabled as follows:

Set-RemoteDomain -Identity -TNEFEnabled $false

Microsoft documentation: 
How to specify the email message format that's used for external recipients to prevent Winmail.dat attachments

The journal contact should be set to -UseMapiRichTextFormat Never per the EV.cloud configuration guide. 

 

Issue/Introduction

When viewing exported emails, the contents of the email show as blank. However, the content is displayed properly in Arctera Insight eDiscovery.