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Thanks. &nbsp;I feared as much as some people have told me their emails to me were being rejected. &nbsp;At times like this one hopes most of it was spam!
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Thanks.  I feared as much as some people have told me their emails to me were being rejected.  At times like this one hopes most of it was spam!

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I run Exchange Server 2000. &nbsp;I shut the server down for two weeks over the holidays. My ISP has always claimed that their servers will attempt to push emails that are queued every15 mins but this is not happening now that I have restarted my server.<br />
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New emails I send to myself (from web mail account) get through fine but I know I must have hundreds of other emails that are waiting on ISP's server<br />
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Is there a generic way (e.g. using telnet commands) to force an SMTP server to send it's queued emails? &nbsp;I could reconfigure my server to use ETURN etc but would rather not and not sure that would work anyway!<br />

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I run Exchange Server 2000.  I shut the server down for two weeks over the holidays. My ISP has always claimed that their servers will attempt to push emails that are queued every15 mins but this is not happening now that I have restarted my server.

New emails I send to myself (from web mail account) get through fine but I know I must have hundreds of other emails that are waiting on ISP's server

Is there a generic way (e.g. using telnet commands) to force an SMTP server to send it's queued emails?  I could reconfigure my server to use ETURN etc but would rather not and not sure that would work anyway!


Forcing push of emails from ISP's server

Interactions between email servers and clients are governed by email protocols. The three most common email protocols are POP, IMAP and MAPI. Most email software operates under one of these (and many products support more than one).  The correct protocol must be selected, and correctly configured, if you want your email account to work.

Email Protocols

An email client, email reader or more formally mail user agent (MUA) is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email. A web application that provides message management, composition, and reception functions is sometimes also considered an email client, but more commonly referred to as webmail.