Occasionally, my organisation will experience mail delivery problems. We have a 'hub-spoke' Exchange 5.5 setup and, for example on last Friday, a problem will occur whereby mail seems not to be being delivered. Checking the MTA on our central server (site connectors to all other sites and an IMC) shows the MTA to be absolutley clogged with mail items - most of which are directory replication messages. When I say clogged, I mean 10,000+ dir rep messages.
I am looking at numerous reasons for this (busy comms links, under-specd. server, etc.) but so far everything seems fine.
This morning, everything seems to be fine and all the messgaes have been delivered over the quiet weekend period.
2 questions, then. These have arisen from reading a Sybex book over the weekend.
1). Can I alleviate some of this traffic by installing additional servers in the busy sites and creating a second Site Connector between the sites?
2). I think that the routing tables may be excessively large - could this contribute to slow message delivery? If so, I have noticed that the address-space scope of every one of our Site Connectors is set to 'Organisation'. Would changing this to 'This Site' or 'This Location' (where applicable) help to alleviate our problems?
Any other pointers gratefully received.
Paul Williams
I am looking at numerous reasons for this (busy comms links, under-specd. server, etc.) but so far everything seems fine.
This morning, everything seems to be fine and all the messgaes have been delivered over the quiet weekend period.
2 questions, then. These have arisen from reading a Sybex book over the weekend.
1). Can I alleviate some of this traffic by installing additional servers in the busy sites and creating a second Site Connector between the sites?
2). I think that the routing tables may be excessively large - could this contribute to slow message delivery? If so, I have noticed that the address-space scope of every one of our Site Connectors is set to 'Organisation'. Would changing this to 'This Site' or 'This Location' (where applicable) help to alleviate our problems?
Any other pointers gratefully received.
Paul Williams