Re: Outbound queues fill up

From: Frank Hellmann (frank.hellmann_at_aloaha.com)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:28:31 +0200

Hi,
that happens if you get a lot of mails (SPAM) which are addressed to non
exitent mailboxes.
you exchange tries to send the sender of these SPAMs NDRs. But usually SPAM
has faked Sender so
the NDRs fill up your queue.
Either you upgrade to Exchange 2003 or you install a antispam solution which
does a userlookup on incoming emals
and rejects mails addressed to non existent mailboxes. Check Aloaha and
VAMSOFT. Both have a 30 day eval period.

FH

"Chad Holstead" <chad@bksteam.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:03e001c4a5a2$855c9a20$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I have an exchange 2000 server running on Windows 2000
> server. All are patched to latest level. We were
> noticing hi volumes of mail in our queues. We cleaned
> the queues, disconected our server from the network. Ran
> a virus scan, came back clean. At that point we had
> about 4 queues, we left the server disconected for about
> 3 hours and when we came back the server had 491 queues.
> This tells me that our server is infected with a virus or
> a trojan, I just can seem to find it. Any help would be
> greatly appreicated.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Chad Holstead

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