Hello, This parameter MaxPerDomainOutboundConnections specifies the maximum number of connections that an Internet-facing Hub Transport server or Edge Transport server can have open to any single remote domain. The outbound connections to remote domains occur by using Send connectors that exist on the server. The default value of the MaxPerDomainOutboundConnections parameter is 20. This parameter PickupDirectoryMaxMessagesPerMinute specifies the rate of message processing for both the Pickup directory and Replay directory. Each directory can independently process message files at the rate that's specified by the PickupDirectoryMaxMessagesPerMinute parameter. By default, the Pickup directory can process 100 messages per minute, and the Replay directory can process 100 messages per minute at the same time. You can know more detail from this document: Understanding Message Throttling http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232205.aspx In my opinion, if you don't have special requirement, you can just use it default settings. Thanks, EvanEvan Liu TechNet Community Support

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We have 25K inbound + 40K outbound = Total 65K msg/hour MaxConnectionRatePerMinute is 1200/min or 72k/hour - Which is enough for 25K inbound? MaxOutboundConnections is 1000 at the same time, which should be sufficient for 40K/hour outbound, unless there is large burst of outbound connection in short interval. MaxPerDomainOutboundConnections is 20. What is the recommendation? PickupDirectoryMaxMessagesPerMinuteis 100/min, or 8/5sec. What is the recommendation?Kelvin Teang

Hello, This parameter MaxPerDomainOutboundConnections specifies the maximum number of connections that an Internet-facing Hub Transport server or Edge Transport server can have open to any single remote domain. The outbound connections to remote domains occur by using Send connectors that exist on the server. The default value of the MaxPerDomainOutboundConnections parameter is 20. This parameter PickupDirectoryMaxMessagesPerMinute specifies the rate of message processing for both the Pickup directory and Replay directory. Each directory can independently process message files at the rate that's specified by the PickupDirectoryMaxMessagesPerMinute parameter. By default, the Pickup directory can process 100 messages per minute, and the Replay directory can process 100 messages per minute at the same time. You can know more detail from this document: Understanding Message Throttling http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232205.aspx In my opinion, if you don't have special requirement, you can just use it default settings. Thanks, EvanEvan Liu TechNet Community Support