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console. The default SMTP virtual server is always referred to as the SMTP
1 instance for the SMTP server performance object.
When you have the SMTP service running on an Exchange 2003 server,
you realize that you may have many sources from which messages can be
received. The performance counter “Inbound Connections Current” gives a
good idea of how many SMTP connections are handled concurrently by
the SMTP server component.
Once a message has been received by the SMTP mail service, it needs to
be categorized for proper delivery locally or for relay to another SMTP
host. The categorization performance ...