Hello,
Could someone tell me what is the process of delivering an email from a one PC to another PC using Exchange 5.5?
I have a strange problem. I sent an email and it was received 20 days later.
The mail was sent from a PC located in building (A) through WAN connection. The PC contacts mail server at bulding (B) through WAN connection and delivers the email to a local distribution list.
I suspect that it is to do with my exchange server 5.5. Does anybody knows what happens in the following scenario. I.e. I press the send button at Netscape. The email client contacts mail server. The server places the message for inbound delivery, BUT -say- the Exchange Administrator decides to shutdown the mail server for maintainance.
Doyou know what happens to the email message after the mail server is restarted?
Will it be delivered? I suspect that there is something wrong with the settings and if there are messages for conversion in the Exchange Mail server’s queue then at the next start up the mails will be delivered after 20 days.
I do not think that the problem is with the client because I changed the date in my PC to 12/02/2000 and I sent an email. The mail was delivered without problems. Thus the date is nothing to do with the email delivery.
PS: The destination address is in the same Exchange organisation. I suspect that whenver the mail server goes down for maintenance then all the messages that are wating conversion in the Exchange delivery queue are finally delivered 15 or 20 days later.
Please, If you have any idea tell me…