If you force the connection does it send? Verify that you can telnet to the remote domain's SMTP server. I'm not aware of any initial delay before sending, only retry intervals, but again this is only occuring for one domain and not globally. Also try enabling your SMTP logging, wait for the queue to clear, than send a test message to the domain, then check your SMTP logs to verify if an initial connection attempt is being made. ________________________________ From: exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Frédéric Giroux Sent: Wed 3/29/2006 12:04 PM To: exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ExchangeList] SMTP queue problem http://www.msexchange.org -------------------------------------------------------Hi All! I am having a problem with my SMTP outbound queue on Exchange 2003. Outgoing messages remain in the "ready" state for sometimes up to an hour before being sent in batch for that domain. Messages accumulates before there is even an attempt to connect to the remote SMTP server. Is there a timer before the first attempt? Thanks for any insight. Fred :-) _____________________________________ Frederic Giroux, technical director Niveau3 inc. IT Consultants fgiroux@xxxxxxxxxx www.niveau3.ca 514-352-4782 (ext. 223) 514-352-9126 (fax) 866-477-4782 (toll free) ------------------------------------------------------- List Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/exchangelist/ MSExchange Newsletter: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp MSExchange Articles and Tutorials: http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/ MSExchange Blogs: http://blogs.msexchange.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Visit TechGenix.com for more information about our other sites: http://www.techgenix.com ------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe visit http://www.msexchange.org/pages/exchangelist.asp Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx