Yes, that's right. Normally in the SMTP world, messages are delivered instantly from one server to another because the servers are always online and connected. In this case, your mail server may not be online all of the time, so all messages that are for your domain will queue at your ISP host (if your ISP has set it up this way.) When your server comes online, it connects to your queued messages on the ISP server and issues the ETRN series of commands that download any waiting messages. It's up to your server to figure out if there are valid mailboxes for the waiting messages or not. ________________________________ From: Adrian Bolzan [mailto:adrianb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thu 12/23/2004 2:01 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: ETRN http://www.MSExchange.org/ It was my understanding that ETRN would retrieve all mails for the entire "email" domain, for example, zillione.com. adrian ________________________________ From: Malinda Perera [mailto:MalindaP@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, 23 December 2004 7:31 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] ETRN http://www.MSExchange.org/ How to retrieve mails from ISP Mail server to internal exchange 2003 server. Urgent Is any one know how to retrieve mails from ISP using ETRN in exchange server, When it retrieve mails does it download mails from every mail account or only mails account which are in destination server.? ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: World of Windows Networking: http://www.windowsnetworking.com Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSEXchange.org Discussion List as: adrianb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: World of Windows Networking: http://www.windowsnetworking.com Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSEXchange.org Discussion List as: chrisw@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx