How does Exchange know which connector to use   

Under Exchange 2000, there are more than more connectors.
Exe, x400 connector to ip1  Exchange MTA
       x400 connector to ip2  Exchange MTA
       SMTP connector    Exchagne MTA

When a message is send to a user or contact. How does exchange know which 
connector to queue.

date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:16:06 -0700   author:   yuki

Re: How does Exchange know which connector to use   

>Under Exchange 2000, there are more than more connectors.
>Exe, x400 connector to ip1  Exchange MTA
>       x400 connector to ip2  Exchange MTA
>       SMTP connector    Exchagne MTA
>
>When a message is send to a user or contact. How does exchange know which 
>connector to queue.

Exchange evaluates the routing using the information on the
connector's Address Space property page.

I believe it finds the best (most fully qualified) route that matches
the recipient address, and for multiple matching routes it uses the
least cost one, and where the cost is equal, I suspect it tries to
balance the load between them.

Dave

date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:31:13 +0100   author:   David Lowndes lid