Here are the facts: - The setting on an Exchange server "This is a Front End Server" in ESM has no effect on SMTP. It only affects POP, IMAP, and HTTP. The design of Exchange is that all Exchange servers are inbound servers for SMTP. Outbound SMTP is controlled via SMTP Connectors.
- Some people have asked for the ability to run "Front End"s without information stores on them, in order to reduce the memory footprint, etc. As far as I know, this is not supported in the current version of Exchange 2000. - Separate from the fact above, the SMTP Service does need an information store to be mounted in order to generate delivery status notifications (even if there is no mailbox delivery happening on that server). The reason is that there is some formatting that needs to happen to the attached message that uses the MIME formatting code present in the store. If you dismount all mailbox stores on a server that accepts inbound messages and that server creates a DSN, that DSN and all subsequent ones will stick in the local delivery queue until a mailbox store is mounted. In this case, the server doesn't go into a loop or crash, it's just that all DSNs will stick in the local delivery queue (which is a bad thing). I hope this clears it up. David -----Original Message----- From: Karen McLaughlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 12:18 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Front-end server problem Hi all, I'm about to configure front-end servers for SMTP, but heard some pretty distressing news about that today. I heard that inetinfo will crash if the servers have any information stores of them, but since the stores generate delivery status msgs, you can't have the FE's as SMTP Gateways or the machine will start establishing TCP connections to itself indefinitely. Apparently there are Q articles out about this, but I haven't read them yet. I was curious to see who has tried to do this out in the field and what your experience has been like so far. TIA, Karen _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
