We did this in Ex5.5 but I don't recall if we did it via the built-in monitoring or a monitoring workstation running PerfMon and Blat. Either way, it was free and alerted us when the queue began to fill-up. If it was the later we just set a queue length point in PerfMon whereby an action (blat) would send email to us both internally and externally. Obviously, the external one was only helpful if someone was on-call and realized when they received it (via pager back then) that the time stamp was an hour or two old by the time they got it. They could then VPN in to their workstation and look at the MTA queues from there.
Btw, if you find it is not NDRs but actual SPAM in your outbound queue it would lead me to wonder if you are being used as a relay. hth, BG -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aristotle Zoulas Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 3:52 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: IMS Outbound Queue We are running Exchange 5.5, on occasion (like just now) our outbound queue fills with spam. We just had 5500 spam emails (<>) no originator in the queue. AS a result, real email was not going out (or was VERY delayed),. Is there any way we can be alerted of this instead of having to manually check? Any advice to prevent it ot mitigate it. TIA Also, why would there be spam in the outbound queue? _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
