Is it Possible to Control Routing within a Site

[dennisbeach1]

We have a few problem WAN locations and do a large amount of Internet mail. All internet mail goes through one server and when there are problems with certain WAN sites, the MTA function comes to a crawl. Shutting down the MTA at the remote location or dropping the link, both clear things up. If we could tell it to send mail for certain server to another local server and than on to the WAN servers, that would minimize this problem.

Any other options to prevent a problem location from stopping MTA service to other servers would be appreciated.
It appears to us trying to do multiple transfers to the problem server and does not have any threads/processes left to handle the others.

WAN problem is the type were the server is seen, but communications to the server is not working effectively.

 

[Bremmerz]

Which SP are you running? MS released a post-SP4 patch for the MTA. One of the problems it fixed was something to do with the MTA not handling messag queues correctly.

I can't remember the exact article, but there should be something at

http://www.microsoft.com/technet

that can help If someone annoys you, walk a mile in their shoes. That way you'll be a mile away from them, and you'll have their shoes )

 

[dennisbeach1]

We have SP4 installed. I found out the MTA threads by default were 2 and could be increased. I increased them to 8 on the Internet server to see if that stops the problem.