Re: MS Exchange 5.5 SP4: Outgoing internet mails disappears

From: Dan Kelley [MSFT] (dankel_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/02/04

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    This KB article may help:

    327500 XFOR: Outbound Internet Mail May Disappear After You Apply Exchange
    http://support.microsoft.com/?id=327500

    The fix for this requires the post-SP4 Information Store roll-up which can
    be found here:

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9ea49782-26b4-470e-950c-3cdcfdc27211&DisplayLang=en 

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"YM Tan" <tanym@time.net.my> wrote in message
news:e71f8c93.0404011859.329f4473@posting.google.com...
> Hi All,
>
> Wish someone can help urgently.
>
> We are using 3rd party mail hosting for our company. For all outgoing
> emails, we set the smarthost in IMS Conntections to forward them to
> the ISP mail servers.
>
> The problem we face is that -- some emails (average 25%-50%) loss
> without errors, log or anything. For example, 3-4 out of 10 emails we
> sent got lost. It happens intermittently. Sometimes, the loss rate can
> be up to 70%.
>
> Initially we thought that it was due to ISP servers issue. But we
> found that if we don't use Exchange, switching to normal SMTP/POP3
> servers proved that the delivery is perfect!
>
> We have trying to download patches for IS from MS website but can't
> get rid of the problem.
>
> Thanks in advance!
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