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Yes thanks. I was looking for more of teh internal process involving MTA stacks, SA and suck. Sorry if I did not specify exactly. This would be for internal mail and external mail.
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Yes thanks. I was looking for more of teh internal process involving MTA stacks, SA and suck. Sorry if I did not specify exactly. This would be for internal mail and external mail.

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Its all explained in the technical reference guide. There is no laymans terms - there is the technical version or nothing else. <br />
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Simon. 
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Its all explained in the technical reference guide. There is no laymans terms - there is the technical version or nothing else.

Simon.

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Hello EEs..I would like to know exactly how a email message flows from the time you hit send in a MS Exchange 2003 server environment using Outlook mail. The path the message takes from senders outbox to recipients inbox.<br />
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Web sites are great, however, a laymans term flow will be great too. <br />
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thx<br />
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Hello EEs..I would like to know exactly how a email message flows from the time you hit send in a MS Exchange 2003 server environment using Outlook mail. The path the message takes from senders outbox to recipients inbox.

Web sites are great, however, a laymans term flow will be great too. 

thx



Message flow in Exchange 2003

Software is any set of instructions that directs a computer to perform specific tasks or operations. Computer software consists of programs, libraries and related non-executable data (such as documentation). Computer software is non-tangible, contrasted with computer hardware, which is the physical component of computers. Software written in a machine language is known as "machine code". However, in practice, software is usually written in high-level programming languages than machine language. High-level languages are translated into machine language using a compiler or interpreter or a combination of the two.

Software

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

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).