Covered in the archives ad infinitum. Have them set up .forward files on the unix boxxen or use separate profiles or upgrade to Outlook 2002, which is somewhat better.
Chris -- Chris Scharff Senior Sales Engineer MessageOne If you can't measure, you can't manage! > -----Original Message----- > From: Phillips, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 10:00 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Cc: Patterson, Norman > Subject: O2K transport stack order not reliable? > > > We have a couple of users with O2K installed in CW mode, set > to use mailboxes on our EX5.5SP4 servers and also POP > mailboxes on a Unix machine. They want mail to Internet > addresses to go out via the SMTP smarthost set up in the POP > configuration, so they have the Internet Mail transport at > the top of the delivery stack above the Exchange service. > > The users *claim* that up to 6 weeks ago it worked as they > wanted; but since then *all* messages go out via the Exchange server. > > We've tried on a test system using O2K SP2, and find that > about 1 in 4 messages to Internet addresses don't go via the > SMTP transport but use the Exchange server. The connection to > the SMTP server is reliable on a LAN - there's not enough > time for it to be timing out, and testing shows that if O2K > gets a refused connection from the smarthost you get a popup > message. So it looks like the client just doesn't always > respect the defined transport stack order. > > Has anyone got any ideas what might be going on? > > Thanks! > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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]
