Re: NDR from spam

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From: Arlo Clizer [MVP] (aclizer_at_online.pullman.com)
Date: 05/13/04


Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 06:45:22 -0700


"Clementius" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
news:unM9vmOOEHA.904@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl:

> We are getting a lot of spam to mailboxes that do not exist on our
> system. As a response, Exchange tries to send NDRs. Because sender's
> addresses are bogus, we end up with hundreds of SMTP queues with
> undeliverable NDRs. Should we be concerned about this and if so, how
> can we work around this issue? Thanks for your input.

A third party gateway product can help with this problem. Unfortunately I
don't have any other advice. Some AV software might also be able to help.

Regards,

-- 
Arlo Clizer
Exchange MVP
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