Re: Spam Attack! Please Help

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ISP has web interface, many thanks for your concern!

"AllenM" wrote:

> I guess if your relying on your ISP to do your SPAM filtering you are using
> POP3 to download to your Exchange server. This is ok but you might want to
> consider this. What may be SPAM to your ISP may not be SPAM to your users or
> better yet your boss. How are you ensuring that legitimate emails are not
> getting blocked? Can you view these blocked emails at your ISP site?
>
>
> "TimeTraveller" <TimeTraveller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%23TlswBWYFHA.2288@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > first STOP the Exchange services
> > find the MAILROOT\VS1 folder on your server (\program
> > files\exchsrvr\mailroot\vs1\queue)
> > Queues are in there delete the content and restart the services
> >
> > "Richard P" <RichardP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:6DEB61A3-76DD-44E0-A019-7632C1EE4AD5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> I am trying to recover from a spam attack on SBS2003/Exchange; I have
> >> enrolled to my ISP's Spam filtering to ensure future problems do not
> > occur.
> >>
> >> However, I have 2000 or so messages in each SMTP Queue which I can of
> > course
> >> manually delete...........
> >>
> >> But I have 560 Queues! There is a way I've found in Exchange to delete
> >> the
> >> queue's text file - but this help does not correspond in Exchange for
> >> SBS,
> >> the folders it mentions to find the queue (OUT folder) do not exist.
> >>
> >> Any help would be appreciated before I spend 5 hours going through each
> >> queue deleting messages!
> >>
> >> many thanks in anticipation.
> >
> >
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