Re: Strange Undeliverable E-mails where to look?

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 08:15:12 -0700

Thank you very much, when we migrated in December to
SBS2k3 the password policy was put in to place, 8
characters and it must be a combination of
upper/lowercase letters and numbers. This users password
is more than 8 characters and is difficult.

Fred

>-----Original Message-----
>Either they're NDRs due to some spammer/virus spoofing
the sender on the
>original message (hence, the recipient's server sends
the NDR to the
>purported sender), or you may be open to relay...E2003
isn't an open relay
>by default, but it does allow for authenticated relay,
which spammers are
>known to exploit if you don't have a very good password
policy in place or
>have enabled Guest.
>
>If you don't need to support external POP users relaying
outbound mail
>through your server, you can disable authenticated relay
on your SMTP
>virtual server. This is a good idea anyway, but it is
probably more likely
>that the first comment is true.
>
>Fred wrote:
>> I've got one user who has been getting undeliverable
>> messages, when viewing the e-mails they are being sent
to
>> individuals who this user doesn't even know. So far, in
>> the SBS2k3 user community here at this office only one
>> person so far is experiencing this. I have Trend Micro
>> Client/Server/Messaging Suite for SMB and I set the
>> uncleanables to be deleted.
>> Where is a good place to start looking for this e-mail
>> issue? The users workstation? The Users Blackberry? It
>> just recently started.
>>
>> Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Fred
>
>
>.
>

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