RE: Mail delivered to the wrong addresses
- From: Tox <Tox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:08:02 -0700
Thanks for the answer. So if this old user tje2 had full access to all
mailboxes in the domain I should check all users?
Although this also happens for users that were created after the tje2
account was deleted but you think the permissions could still be there even
for new accounts?
"JMS" wrote:
> This may or may not be your issue, but we ended up figuring out the problem
> wasn't Exchange, rather Outlook. We had people delegating permissions
> through Outlook, and when these people left the company and the account was
> deleted, the person who delegated rights still had the SID of the old person
> listed somewhere in their Outlook permissions.
>
> For example, a secretary left and she had perms to an exec mailbox. She
> gets fired, we delete the account, but her SID is still stamped all over the
> mailbox because the Exec set her up to have some permissions to his box.
>
> To find these bad permissions, check everyone's Outlook who may have done
> some testing with that email address and verify that they don't have anything
> funky set for permissions related to that account. If you don't see
> anything, contact your Microsoft rep and see if you can get a hold of a
> utility called MFCMAPI, plus directions on how to use it. It's a big spooky
> to use because you're guts deep in the database, but you may end up finding
> some strange permissions.
>
> HTH!
>
> "Tox" wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a very weird problem with our Exchange server. We have just migrated
> > our users from one domain to a new domain. We created a new domain on
> > completely new servers an imported all users from the old one - we didn't
> > migrate any other settings.
> >
> > The problem is that a very small percentage of incoming mail is being
> > delivered to a wrong address. An example could be that someone is sending a
> > mail to ehandel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx but the mail is delivered to an address that
> > doesn't exist called tje2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx This address once existed in the old
> > domain and was used for test purposes (but was deleted over a year ago and
> > therefore wasn't migrated to the new domain).
> >
> > All mails that are wrongly delivered to a different address goes to
> > tje2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and the external sender gets the following message:
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > did not reach the following recipient(s):
> > tje2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on Mon Mar 29 10:09:37 2004
> >
> > The e-mail account does not exist at the organization this message was sent
> > to. Check the e-mail address, or contact the recipient directly to find out
> > the correct address.
> > <cdmail.CD.LOCAL #5.1.1>
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > I don't understand why it says tje2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and I have checked that
> > the mail accounts are not set up to reroute mail to this address. Another odd
> > thing is that sometimes the sender can send mails to other users in our
> > domain but not always.
> >
> > The amount of mails that there are getting this error is less than 1% of our
> > total amount of mails but of course still a huge problem. Is there a way I
> > can search somewhere for the address tje2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx? I have also tried to
> > create this mailbox without problems so it isn't just hidden and actually
> > exists.
> >
> > Hopefully someone can help.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Thomas
.
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