Outgoing messages delayed in smarthostconnectordelivery queue
I have an Exchange server that uses a 3rd party SPAM appliance as a smarthost. It's been working great for a few years but suddenly I'm getting messages sitting the smarthostconnectordelivery queue with a status of Ready for approximately 5 minutes before
sending. The good news is mail is moving, but always with a 5 minute rest in the queue before moving to the smarthost.
There are no errors on the messagesThere are no errors on the queueThe Protocol log doesn't shown any attempts to connect to the smart host until it has sat in the queue for about 5 minutes.The output of the queue is shown below
DeliveryType : SmartHostConnectorDelivery
NextHopDomain : smarthost-a.contoso.com,smarthost-b.contoso.com,smarthost-c.contoso.com
TlsDomain :
NextHopConnector : 8eb0ec78-bb81-486d-a194-65cee5be1e5d
Status : Active
MessageCount : 144
LastError :
LastRetryTime : 5/2/2013 2:52:34 PM
NextRetryTime :
DeferredMessageCount : 0
QueueIdentity : TRANSPORTSERVER\2970455
Identity : TRANSPORTSERVER\2970455
IsValid : True
The problem is very similar to the issue described here:http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchange2010/thread/f0b1a4ef-650d-4fe3-8838-4b4effbe47ed
I think the problem is smarthost related but Exchange is not giving any indication of failing to connect/getting deferred by the smarthost. Is there a log for this info?
May 2nd, 2013 3:16pm
Hi
You can use log parser to check protocol log or smtp log
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/03/07/introducing-log-parser-studio.aspx
Cheers
Zi Feng
TechNet Community Support
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May 3rd, 2013 5:32am
Hi
You can use log parser to check protocol log or smtp log
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/03/07/introducing-log-parser-studio.aspx
Cheers
Zi Feng
TechNet Community Support
May 3rd, 2013 12:18pm
enable the versobe logging- it may give you some more details.
is it something new happend, has the email flow was working before this happened?Where Technology Meets Talent
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May 3rd, 2013 3:52pm
enable the versobe logging- it may give you some more details.
is it something new happend, has the email flow was working before this happened?Where Technology Meets Talent
May 3rd, 2013 10:39pm
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