Excellent news. I debated the fact that that was what happened with someone from PSS (I was holding a network trace absolutely showing it and the PSS person was going off of what "he knew") for some time before they finally admitted it wasn't optimal behavior and potentially quite dangerous especially since it is difficult to determine what rules everyone is using and there is really nothing that tells the Exchange admins what is happening when this problem hits them. If you dislike your Exchange admins, it is a great way to make them feel pain. ;o)
If you know the KB I would like to take a peek. joe -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 8:22 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: DL is this to be expected? There is a fix for this. I'm pretty sure it's public at this point. Don't ask me the KB/patchid. It's too late on the east coast after I've already started having a few.... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 6:03 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: DL is this to be expected? Yes actually it is if you are talking about Exchange DLs... Consider how email is marked when it comes from an Exchange DL... It isn't coming from the DL, it is coming from the user who specified the DL as an address... The DL is simply used for routing and hiding the TO: list from immediate view... It isn't like say this listserv where the messages come FROM the actual DL. If I recall correctly, Exchange actually expands the group every time it processes the rule for every single message you receive and there is no caching of that expansion... You actually need to be quite careful with this, I reported this as a bug to MSFT some time ago as I watched a series of rules like that that about took out a very high end high perf Exchange server that was scaled to support about 4000 users which only had about 100 on it... If you want to play with it, select some HUGE DL you have, like say an everyone in the company DL and set up a couple of server side rules with that DL. Early last year in some testing I was able to actually cause mail delivery in a production enterprise class environment to be slowed down by hours doing that... Even if I sent a message to myself... joe -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Parris Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 4:05 AM To: ActiveDir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: DL is this to be expected? Morning, When I setup an outlook 2003 rule to move all mails from a DL to a subfolder in my inbox, I see that all mails from this DL go into this folder no problem, but anyone who is also a member of this DL - their mail ends up in there too and not in the inbox. Is this added value? Rule is move all mails as they arrive from DL to subfolder. No other logic. Many thanks. Regards, Mark Parris Base IT Ltd Active Directory Consultancy Tel +44(0)7801 690596 List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir@mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir@mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir@mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir@mail.activedir.org/