stupid but complicated email problem

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SBS 2003 standard - no ISA, email is picked up via pop3 "catch all" and then
distributed via AD to users/Outlook all worked fine. Then the boss wanted 2
personal email accounts for home, so I set up on the external webserver
boss1@domain and boss2@domain as pop accounts which he and his wife pick up
on the home machines, that worked fine untill boss emailed from his work
account to his home account, Exchange looked home up account in AD and
said - no, sorry no account here. I looked this up in thisnewsgroup and
found some solution about forwarding unresolved email to external smart host
(which for the life of me I cant find again or remember what I did - which
is kind of scary & totaly unprofesional - but then I'm just "the guy who
knows about computers" in the office and get roped into running the SBS - I
can google most stuff, but not perfect I know) this all worked.

Trouble is its looping the spam. I.E if a mail is sent to
random-spamer-guessing-address@domain exchange says "thats not for any of my
users" and kicks it back out to our external smtp host, who also hosts our
email and website and then exchange picks it up 15 mins later - rinse and
repeat untill all your bandwidth is used. I didnt notice this untill last
month when it ate all our externall website bandwidth and our website was
susspended (small website with a 5gb a month limit - more than enough in
normal situations untill I broke it). At the moment I am disabeling the
outbound email every hour or so and clearing out the garbage.

So can someone please help me to not look like a complete idiot as Im trying
to get work to send me on some propper courses (and get a pay rise), this
newsgroup has helped me on more than one occasion look like a pro, but now
Im stuck.

Thanks In advance for your help

Kev K


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