RE: Exchange 5.5 and relaying

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 08/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:50:29 -0700

I have symantec antivirus corporate edition running and
none of the machines have a virus. Is there anyway to
check the network to see if a machine were running an
smtp engine of some sort?
>-----Original Message-----
>Hello Russ,
>
>What about an virus infected computer inside your
network that is abusing
>your server?
>
>Kay Sellenrode
>
>"Russ" wrote:
>
>> I have an exchange 5.5 sp4 server that appears to be
>> relaying mail. I've looked up information on
preventing
>> Exchange 5.5 from being an open relay and configured
it
>> accordingly. I've tested it with abuse.net manually
>> through telent and it says it's not an open relay, but
>> when I look at the outgoing mail queue in the IMS
there is
>> a bunch of mail in there that is definitely not
business
>> related. The ones that are still in the queue are
there
>> because of being host unreachable. I don't know how
many
>> are acutally going through. Does anybody have any
>> suggestions?
>>
>.
>

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