tfft's questions

I am trying to research a problem with email from the TLD .PL not getting processed by our Exchange 2003 server. There is no record of the email in Message Tracking Center. We have a Barracuda Spam appliance - I see the message there so I know it gets to us. If I freeze the Messages pending submission queue it never shows up. This holds true even if I open a Telnet session and enter the email by hand. No error messages show up in the Telnet session - it looks like it goes through, however it does not.

Any troubleshooting tips? Perhaps the Message pending submission is not the correct queue to be looking in?

We are running an IBM Bladecenter here with 2 NICs per blade. The NICs are Broadcoms which come with the BAC Suite to allow you to configure Teaming for failover support. My question is during the Teaming configuration wizard I'm asked optionally to identity a standby member - is this necessary? With only 2 Nics in the blade and both assigned to the team won't they automatically fail over if one loses connection? Otherwise what's the point of the team?