XFOR: Message Flow Through the Notes Connector

• Microsoft Exchange Server, version 5.5

SUMMARY

This article describes the flow of messages through the Notes connector.

MORE INFORMATION

Message sent from Exchange to Lotus Notes

1. The message will be routed by the Message Transfer Agent (MTA) to the Exchange Server computer with the Notes Connector. There will be four MAPI folders (MTS-OUT, READYOUT, MTS-IN, and READYIN) that reside within the Information Store. For a message outbound from Exchange Server, it will be placed in the MTS-OUT folder of the Notes Connector.



2. A process will then pick up the message from this MTS-OUT folder, look up the directory for the target recipients before placing the message into the READYOUT folder.
   
   (Specifically, this process is Lsmexout.exe. This process is listed in the Exchange Connectivity Administrator's Process Manager as "Transfer from Exchange to Notes", or "LME-NOTES-MEXOUT" process. In the Queues tab of the Notes Connector property page, the MTS-OUT folder and READYOUT folder map to "Outbound from Exchange" and "Outbound to Notes" respectively)



3. The next Notes Connector process then converts the message into a Notes mail format and deposits it into the Notes mailbox router(Mail.box).
   (This process Lsmexnts.exe, is listed in the Exchange Connectivity Administrator's Process Manager as "Convert Exchange to Notes", or "LME-NOTES-MEXNTS")

1. The Notes Connector will poll the Notes outbound mail router (Exchange.box) and pick up any mail deposited there. This process will also convert the message into MAPI format and deposit it into the READYIN folder on the Exchange Server computer with the Notes Connector.
   
   (Specifically, this process is Lsntsmex.exe. This process is listed in the Exchange Connectivity Administrator's Process Manager as "Convert Notes to Exchange", or "LME-NOTES-NTSMEX". In the Queues tab of the Notes Connector property page, the READYIN and MTS-IN folder map to "Inbound from Notes" and "Inbound to Exchange" respectively)



2. The next process, Lsmexin.exe then looks up and confirms the directory entries for the recipients, and moves the message from the READYIN folder into the MTS-IN MAPI folder.
   
   (This process is listed in the Exchange Connectivity Administrator's Process Manager as "Transfer to Exchange for Notes", or "LME-NOTES-MEXIN")



3. The Information Store then decides whether the recipients are local or require further work by the MTA to hand the message off to remote Exchange Server computers.

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