Delivery Status Notification (Delay) 2

[rhardy99]

I receive this error every now and then.
My Exchange server is internal only but a couple users have "outside" email accounts on their Outlook. This delay message seems to point at the Exchange postmaster. Is the delay my outside email provider or is this a server issue like resources at the time where low? Please advise!

test.net is our internal email account.

From: postmaster@test.net [mailtoostmaster@test.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 11:35 PM
To: Mary Beth
Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Delay)

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.
Delivery to the following recipients has been delayed.

name@notreal.org

 

[matt4x4]

If you get this message followed by a delivery failure sometime thereafter, then it did not get through, if however, this is all you get then don't worry about it, the recipient's mailserver could be down/busy.

 

[rhardy99]

What are the reasons that I get this message? You mentioned if the recipient's mail server is busy ort down... what other possibilities could there be?

 

[Davetoo]

That's about it. If your mail server can't communicate with the other mail server, it'll retry for a period of time, then send you the warning that it's still trying. If it reaches the second threshhold set in Exchange, then it'll quit trying and return a delivery failure to you.

I'm Certifiable, not certified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

 

[darren97]

Worth a read

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;329636