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That's great, thanks for the info.<br />
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Do you have any idea why it would have taken several hours for the message to get delivered? Should I just assume the recipient's mail server was having issues? There was nothing else in the Message Tracking. At 11:54am when the user clicked send, the messaged reached the point of SMTP: Message Routed and Queued for Remote Deilvery. The next entry after that is at 3:04pm SMTP: Started Outbound Transfer of Message followed by the entry with a string of ***********<br />
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Thanks,<br />
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Anil.
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That's great, thanks for the info.

Do you have any idea why it would have taken several hours for the message to get delivered? Should I just assume the recipient's mail server was having issues? There was nothing else in the Message Tracking. At 11:54am when the user clicked send, the messaged reached the point of SMTP: Message Routed and Queued for Remote Deilvery. The next entry after that is at 3:04pm SMTP: Started Outbound Transfer of Message followed by the entry with a string of ***********

Thanks,

Anil.

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Thanks for your help.<br />
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Anil.
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I have an Exchange 2003 Standard Edition server and a particular user gets the occasional delay when sending an email. It does eventually get delivered several hours later. When I use the message tracking center, the last line in the log for the message shows &quot;Message transferred to (string of asterisks) through SMTP.<br />
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Any help is greatly appreciated.
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I have an Exchange 2003 Standard Edition server and a particular user gets the occasional delay when sending an email. It does eventually get delivered several hours later. When I use the message tracking center, the last line in the log for the message shows "Message transferred to (string of asterisks) through SMTP.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Message tracking displays delivery delay and asterisks

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.

Exchange

Within Internet message handling services (MHS), a message transfer agent or mail transfer agent (MTA) or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using a client–server application architecture. A MTA implements both the client (sending) and server (receiving) portions of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). The terms mail server, mail exchanger, and MX host may also refer to a computer performing the MTA function. The Domain Name System (DNS) associates a mail server to a domain with mail exchanger (MX) resource records containing the domain name of a host providing MTA services.