Managing Transport Agents

This help section describes the process of managing ORF Transport Agents.

ORF Transport Agents

ORF installs two Exchange transport agents:

• Vamsoft ORF SMTP Receive Agent: Responsible for filtering the SMTP transport.
• Vamsoft ORF Routing Agent: Responsible for monitoring the outbound emails for Auto Sender Whitelist address collection.

For diagnostic purposes, you may want to temporarily disable these agents. This can be done using the Exchange PowerShell console.

Disabling an ORF Transport Agent

Start the Exchange PowerShell console and run the

or the

command. Note that this change will take effect only after restarting the Exchange transport:

Enabling an ORF Transport Agent

Start the Exchange PowerShell console and run the

or the

command. Note that this change will take effect only after restarting the Exchange transport:

Installing Transport Agents

If, for any reason, the ORF Transport Agents get uninstalled, follow the instructions on our website to install them.

Changing the Agent Priority

Start the Exchange PowerShell console and run the

command to get the list of transport agents installed on your system. To change the priority of the ORF Transport Agents, run the

or the

command, where X is the new priority. The highest priority is 1. Note that priority values are not absolute—if you have 4 transport agents and you change the priority of an agent from 4 to 3, the agent that previously had priority 3 will have priority 4.