Re: message submitted to categorizer

All it takes is a momentary communications problem and the membership comes
back null. As I stated, the best practice is to make them universal groups.
If you do this, you avoid any potential issues.


"Dirk" <news.dbart@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi John,

It is a global distribution group. But I am wondering, because there is no
expansion server selected. I checked the Exchange Advanced Tab and there
is standard (all Servers in the Organization).
So normally every Exchange Server should be able to find all the DL
members, or not?

Dirk




"John Fullbright" <fjohn@donotspamenetappdotcom> wrote in message
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It's an expansion problem. What kind of distribution group is it?
Domain? A domain distribution group requires an expansion server in the
domain the group exists. If for what ever reason the group cannot be
expanded (the expansion server cannot be contacted or the call fails for
any reason) a null group is returned :-(. That's the same as sending a
message to a DL with no members; it disappears at the categorizer with no
error or warning.

The best practice is to make your distribution groups universal groups.
The membership of universal groups is stored in the GC partition on every
GC. You avoid potential issues with expansion servers.


"Dirk" <news.dbart@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi NG,

I wanted to sent a mail to a distribution list. The members of this list
are located on another exchange server exept one. We are on the same
server.

This message was directly submitted to the categorizer.
I sent the same message with myself in CC and I received the mail.

I checked our Antivirus program and this mail was not blocked.
The DL has only 60 members, so the max. number of recipients (64000) was
not reached.
It was only a text mail, so no problem with the mail size.

I sent the mail to all users from the DL by choosing them from the
global addressbook and they all received the mail.

OS: Windows 2k SP4 with Exchange 2k SP3

Any ideas what kind of problem this is?

Thanks in advance
Dirk










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