RE: Messages from ending up in badmail folder

Glad to hear your problems are over :)

..Jesper

"Michael Tovey" wrote:

Hi Jesper.

I had a welcomed supprice with no failed messages after my server restart
over the weekend!

I am not sure why your getting lagitimate Email sent into your Failed folder
unless you have some Mail Cleaning software? I know if you have SBS-2003
Prof' you can set up mail cleaning. But I dont have it so im not sure?

Well good Luck with this and If i can help let me know.

Michael
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"Jesper Hauge" wrote:

No - it's not likely. In fact I got one of the "offending" senders to send a
test message after I had activated all the heavy logging, and his e-mail
ended up in the badmail folder.

So unless he has some kind of permanent bcc setting, there's no bcc in the
test mail.

"Michael Tovey" wrote:

One quick question do you think that the mail that ou are getting in your bad
mail folder is all BCC mail.


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"Jesper Hauge" wrote:

Hello Michael

Thanks for your reply, a few more words on my situation.

I am not seeing nearly as many badmails as you are, but that could be
because of the small size (3 employees) of the organization in question.

What's worse is that the mail ending up in the badmail directory all are
legitimate mails, they have a at least 3 different senders that are not able
to get any emails through. And then there are a lot of e-mails from a webform
on an PHP-website which are also routed to the badmail-folder, but I haven't
been able to figure out if its only copies that ends up in the badmail folder
or if they just aren't delivered.

I have been contemplating switching to SMTP only mail also, but would rather
not, as their ISP have antivirus and spam filter on the server they are POP3
connecting to.

Regards
Jesper Hauge

Regards
Jesper

"Michael Tovey" wrote:

OK, Setting up the mail to go out of the SMTP will not work for me as I have
had to setup Routings in the POP connector! Grrrrrrr.

I will have a play and I will get back to you with my findings.

Michael
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"Jesper Hauge" wrote:

I have been researching this problem for some days now and I'm stuck :-S

I have a client running a SBS 2003 server, picking up mail via the POP3
connector from their ISP. 99% of all mails goes through, but mails from some
email-adresses ends up in the badmail folder every time.

The server is fully updated, and is running 2 NIC's for internal and
external networks. The external NIC is connected to an ADSL-router on the
192.168.0.x net.

I have turned on the message-tracking logs which states the following for
the messages in question.

Event: SMTP: Advanced queue failed to deliver message
EventID: 1026
Event: SMTP: Message sent to badmail
EventID: 1021

and nothing more.

I have turned on diagnostic logging for the POP3 connector which reports
nothing, which makes sense since e-mail are transferred to the badmail folder
only when processed by the SMTP connector after the POP3 and CDO processes
has moved them all the way to the pickup folder.

I have maximum logging level on the following services:
MSExchangeTransport/Routing Engine
MSExchangeTransport/Connection Manager
MSExchangeTransport/Queuing Enginge
MSExchangeTransport/SMTP Protocol
And cannot find anything suspicious from these in the logs.

The only articles I have been able to find about this problem has been
talking about setting the maximum hop count to 30, it is allready set.

And a KB article about experiencing these problems when behind certain
firewalls. But to my knowledge there is no firewall besides the router, which
only forwards the ports necessary for SBS.

I'm leaning towards the posibility of errors in the message headers in these
mails, but can't find anything on the net talking about this - so I guess
that's not the case.

Any help would be greatly appreciated !!!

Regards Jesper Hauge
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