Re: Can you turn off NDRs on IIS 5?

From: Ray (reply_in_at_news.only)
Date: 05/17/04 

Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 20:11:01 -0400

Thanks, Ken. That's a good question. I assumed it was the SMTP service
because we have the NDR feature on the spam filter shut off. We're getting a
lot of messages in the BADMAIL folder on the spam filter/IIS5 box.

Inbound email goes through a separate SMTP anti-virus gateway and then is
forwarded to the spam filter/IIS box. The spam filter/IIS box then forwards
it to Exchange 5.5

Outbound email from Exchange does not route through either the spam
filter/IIS box or the SMTP gateways; it goes direct to the Internet.

So now I don't know where they are coming from.

Ray

"Ken Schaefer" <kenREMOVE@THISadOpenStatic.com> wrote in message
news:uU1wWYkNEHA.3312@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> What is generating the NDRs? MS SMTP Server, by default, does not generate
> NDRs, since the SMTP server is not aware of what users exist at your
> domain(s), which don't.
>
> Exchange server (on the other hand) is aware of what mailboxes exist. Or
> perhaps it is your spam filter software that is generating the NDRs?
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
> "Ray" <reply_in@news.only> wrote in message
> news:etWcmLiNEHA.3380@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> : We have a spam filter running Windows 2000 and SMTP. We would like to
turn
> : off the NDRs as the spammers are usually fake domains. is this possible?
> :
> : Thanks,
> :
> : Ray
> :
> :
>
>

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