ajruiz
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smtp queuing
Our company is moving in a few months, what is the best method to use for SMTP queuing to avoid any e-mails from not being delivered when the Exchange Server is down for about 8 hours?
Would I contact our ISP to see if they provide SMTP Queuing? Are there external companies that provide this service?
Would I contact our ISP to see if they provide SMTP Queuing? Are there external companies that provide this service?
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If we use Windows 2003 Server as a relay, I assume you are configure IIS for this. How do you tell IIS to hold the e-mail if the Exchange Server is unavailable?
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This article is what I was looking for. We would then just need to set the local Expiration timeout value on to however long we would need.
Thanks,
Thanks,
Yes. That is correct. Set the expiry time, the notification time etc to 12 hours or more. This will stop the remote clients from receiving delay notifications.
Simon.
Simon.
Although 8 hours is well within the usual SMTP retry period of 48 hours.
You could also do it yourself using a standard Windows 2003 server configured as a relay.
Simon.
Exchange MVP.