Hello we havea bulk emailing facility which is used heavily by our organisation, one problem with this is that the amount of emails slows down the internet connection when a large bulk email is sent. We also have workers that connect to our organisation from home and a slow internet connection will impact on their connectivity too. I was hoping to get all emails that are sent from the one server to be delayed sending until out of office hours. Unfortunatly i am not a exchange guru and need a little advise on how to set this up as i believe that it is possible to do Thanks Gareth

There is an option to "Use different delivery times for oversize messages" on the Delivery Options tab of your SMTP Connector that sends e-mails to the internet, which should be under Routing Groups/Connectors in the ESM. Check this box, and tell it in KB what an "Oversized message" is to you. Then set the Schedule you want by adjusting the Connection time: Use Cutom Schedule option. Click the "Customize" button to set exactly when you want oversized messages sent. Or... Tell whomever is sending large spam out to the world to quit.

Hello I have seen and thought about this option but as the emails can range from being very small in size as in 50k but being sent to 8000 people this is not really an option What i have done is put another SMTP virtual server in the exchange and also another connector and said that this connector can only send between the hours outside of work time and then set the bulk emailing facility to use this IP address and not the normal. This seems to be working altho the timings are out Also, it is not SPAM, its member buliting and event information for a membership organisation, but thanks for your concerns Gareth

I would see if the system generating this bulk mails can schedule them somehow or just them with a small pause between each of them

Solved the issue Created a new SMTP Virtual Server and also a new SMTP connector Set that connector to point to the VS and set the delivery to out of hours Set the email facility to use that new VS 's IP address Set the new VS IP address to be able to send emails in the firewall (port 25) and it seems to work thanks for your help Gareth Collins

Sorry about the spam comment. I was just joking around.

Mate, not a problem, im lucky i have a sence of humour!! have a good one G