:) I'll plea the fifth. 

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> On Dec 7, 2014, at 7:31 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> It’s a unicode string. Rangeupper isn’t that important. Without checking, I 
> think you get 16,384 unicode characters, less a bit of overhead.
>  
> The number you can get is dependent on how you have them stored. For example, 
> 192.168.1.1-192.168.1.254 takes more bytes to store than 192.168.1.0/24.
>  
> So…. Probably 600 - 1,200. Depending.
>  
> I would seriously question why the heck you need that many RELAY IP 
> addresses. It seems excessive. You have that many archaic devices that cannot 
> authenticate?
>  
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
> On Behalf Of Adam Farage
> Sent: Sunday, December 7, 2014 4:30 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Exchange] Maximum amount of entries in a Receive Connector (for 
> relay)?
>  
> Environment: Exchange 2010 SP3UR5, two AD sites with split roles all over the 
> place
> 
> 
> So.. I inherited a pretty solid environment minus the Receive connector we 
> are using for SMTP Relay. Within the Remote IP Ranges (allowed to relay) 
> there are a TON of addresses, and yesterday we ran into an issue where we 
> would add an address and three minutes later it would drop. Knowing the 
> attribute has some type of rangeUpper assigned to it, I thought we hit the 
> maximum so I consolidated the list down a bit and pow, it worked. 
> 
> Now, I guess the question is what is the maximum number of IP addresses that 
> can go into the attribute ms-Exchange-Smtp-Receive-Remote-IP-Ranges? If I 
> look at the attribute both in Production and Lab (Lab is fully up to date) it 
> shows the same rangeUpper as 200, but I know this is impossible since we have 
> to have at least 500+ IP addresses that relay off Exchange. I can pull a list 
> later to confirm.
> 
> Any ideas? I am stumped, as I know this is a limitation due to the rangeUpper 
> but that value doesn't make much sense.
> 
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> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Adam F

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