Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Databases, Services, & Management: Pocket Consultant

Chapter 5. Managing and maintaining mail flow

• Managing message pickup, replay, throttling, and back pressure

• Creating and managing accepted domains

• Creating and managing email address policies

• Configuring journal rules

• Creating and managing remote domains

• Configuring anti-spam and message filtering options

• Configuring transport rules

In Microsoft Exchange 2013, mail flow occurs through a collection of services, connections, components, and queues that work together as part of the transport pipeline. On Client Access servers, the Front End Transport service acts as a stateless proxy for all inbound and outbound external SMTP traffic. On Mailbox servers, the Transport service categorizes messages, inspects their content, and queues them for delivery or ...