hello. thanks for the time.
the other day we setup 2 SharePoint 2013 WFE with SMTP services to receive incoming mail. and they both are...however the problem is that FE1 takes in about 75% of the emails in the drop folder while FE2 takes the remaining 25%. Any way this can be done 50/50?
Also we have a public folder that forwards emails to a document library about every second...so we are getting backed up in the queue. is it possible to have a dedicated Drop folder on a network share? we tried to add a network share but the Front End IIS virtual SMTP service does not allow a network location...looks like it must be local to the server and I am guessing it would have to be a member of farm. weird thing is we didn't see the issue in SP2010 ... it was able to handle the load on 2 front end servers.
thanks again for the time and effort.