Re: HELP - can't figure out this violation!

From: Bob Britton (robertbrittonjr_at_maximumit.net)
Date: 10/08/04 

Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 10:29:13 -0400

PS It seems like it's just the BADMAIL directory that actually has files in
it that keeps growing.

I look in the queue directory (d:\programfiles\exchsrvr\mailroot\vsi1\queue)
and it's empty.

where would these messages be coming from?

in other words, in exchange system manager, servers-->queues

there's now 200 destination queues with about 3000 messages in them. that's
just from today.

"Bob Britton" <robertbrittonjr@maximumit.net> wrote in message
news:eU5Fb$TrEHA.2008@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I'm desperate for help.
>
> We just did an exchange 2003 email install with internet connectivity
(SMTP
> mail).
>
> I just noticed that there are several hundred thousand reports of badmail.
>
> I stopped the smtp service, cleaned out the queue, pickup, and badmail
(del
> *.* in all).
>
> Then, I re-enabled outbound (SMTP).
>
> the queue quickly fills up and grows from just a couple of delivery queues
> for internet destinations to several hundred queues with a couple hundred
> mails in each.
>
> If i try and 'find message' and view the properties on one of them, they
all
> say 'message from postmaster@mydomain.local'
>
> I went through the email settings for relay and it's definitely turned
off.
>
> help! I can't figure out who's dumping all these message on my box!
>
> Also, I have a whopping (2) client PCs on my network. each runs norton
> antivirus.
>
> how do i track down who's dumping these messages in my exchange box!
>
> could some one also verify that they can't relay
>
> my ip is 66.202.22.51
>
> thanks! HELP I'm dyin here!
>
>

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