Could Not Deliver in Time Limit Specified

[rjfranz]

Hello,

Running Exchange 2000. We are having problems when emailing to large groups. Initially, the problem only appeared to be with using distribution groups with more than 20 or 30 addresses. Now it is happening when emailing a large group but picking the addresses individually. I just attempted to email 90 recipients by selecting their individual email addresses rather than a distribution group. It was just a one paragraph email with no attachments. The Undeliverable message I receive is, "Could not deliver message in the time limit specified. Please retry or contact your system administrator. <xxx.xxx.com #4.4.7>". My connections and recipients settings should be adequate. Any other settings I should be looking at?

Thanks,
Rick

 

[xmsre]

Take a netmon trace from the Exchange server to the GC. Use the expert to determine what percentages of which type of traffic is going accross the wire. Alternately, do a store trace. If you go with the store trace, KB 239921 and 296624 should get you started.