Re: Message Queuing on Front End Server

From: Kip Ng [MSFT] (king_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/04/04 

Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 17:24:19 +0800

I believe that is normal behavior of Link State information. When RGC2
fails, link state detects that the link has failed, the message should
remain at the source server and it will not be sent to 1st BE. 

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"Arif Bijle - bijleai@alj.com" 
<ArifBijlebijleaialjcom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:6820E409-EA58-46E8-BF6F-2EBDB950D709@microsoft.com...
> Current scenario is as per the following:
>
> Mail To/From Internet--->E2K FE <----RGC1----> 1st BE <-----RGC2-----> 2nd 
> BE
>
> Based on the above setup, we have E2K based Front End server accepting and
> delivering Emails to/from Internet and Back End servers. The connectivity 
> to
> BE servers is through RGC1 between FE and 1st BE server and then RGC2 from
> 1st BE to 2nd BE as depicted. Therefore, an incoming message for a mailbox 
> on
> 2nd BE server has to pass through RGC1 & RGC2. FE & 1st BE are available 
> one
> the same LAN and 2nd BE is connected across a slow WAN link.
>
> Problem: In case of non-availability of 2nd BE due to certain reasons 
> (like
> WAN link failure, etc) what has been observed is that inbound emails for
> receipients on 2nd BE are queued on the Front End server. Is this behavior
> normal instead of messages destined for 2nd BE mailboxes to get queued on 
> 1st
> BE server? If this is abnormal or can be worked around to have queued at 
> 1st
> BE instead of FE server, let me know.
>
> Arif Bijle

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