Re: Is my server hijacked or is it spammed

Recipient Filtering does not impact relaying functionality as such.

The way relaying (and Recipient Filtering) works:
- if an external host (that does not have permission to relay by default)
sends mail for somethirddomain.com to your server, which is only responsible
for receiving mail to yourdomain.com, it will get a 5.7.1 relaying denied.
Recipient Filtering does not even come in play at this point.
- if the external host sends a message to AnyUser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - your
server is responsible for receiving mail to this domain, as defined in
Recipient Policies. It will accept the message. There was no relaying
invovled here because the message is for your domain.
- With Recipient Filtering enabled, if the host sends a message to
InvalidUser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, though your server is responsible for receiving
the message, it will check if InvalidUser exists in AD or not - in this case
the user is invalid, so the message is dropped.
- When authenticated or allowed hosts relay through your server, they are
sending to some domain that your server isn't responsible for. They will be
allowed to relay because they are authenticated or hosts allowed to
relay.... Exchange cannot and will not check whether a recipient is actually
valid or not on a 3rd party smtp domain.

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Bharat Suneja
MVP - Exchange
www.zenprise.com
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<georgevukas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1153876241.559093.24590@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks, I guess this will drop all incoming mail to non-existent
internal directory addresses.

Will this have an affect though on mail sent via relay to external
addresses by legitimate IMAP or POP3 users?

Is there any official MS doco on this behaviour?



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