Modifying queue priorities in Exchange 2003?

seamus · 09-10-2006 2:49pm #1

Dunno if anyone here knows about Exchange to help me with this.

Basically, we want to reroute all the mail coming from SAP to our Exchange server, so we can take the ageing server offline.

Ideally, all the mail coming from the SAP machine would have priority over other mail - i.e. all SAP mail would be sent first. The mail coming from SAP is going externally and is business critical.

I'm familiar with settings up connectors and costs - but I'm not sure if the "cost" field just relates to choosing which connector to use, or if it actually has some influence in terms of the priority of the mail (i.e. if you have two connectors sending mail to the same host, does the connector with the lower cost have higher priority?). I'm 90% sure it's just the former.

The connectors also have nothing to do with the source, and the mails are being sent to hundreds of different external domains. So connectors aren't all that useful.

In a nutshell, I want to be able to set it up so that if the SAP system initiates an SMTP session, all mail originating from that session has a higher priority than all other mail.

Anyone?

Capt'n Midnight · 09-10-2006 8:23pm

cost is used to choose connector

I'm a bit fuzzy but could you not setup another virtual queue with different rules so those emails use it,

maybe google for tarpit ?

Modifying queue priorities in Exchange 2003?

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