Mostly because It slows the hell out of all my incoming/outgoing external
mail .  .  . and I dont particularly like the idea of someone flooding my
boxes with bogus mail . . .

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Scharff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 6:57 PM
Subject: RE: IMC Queues


> Why would you want to stop NDRs, read and delivery receipts from being
> delivered to senders? If the sender is bogus the messages are eventually
> dropped.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Chris Scharff - MCSE, Exchange MVP 512.652.4500 x244
> Senior Sales Engineer MessageOne
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Haaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 11:34 AM
> > To: Exchange Discussions
> > Subject: Re: IMC Queues
> >
> >
> > After finally finding the answer (I think) at Trend's site . . .
> >
> > Note that this unknown recipient problem does not occur for
> > SMTP servers like Exchange Internet Mail Service. When
> > InterScan tries to deliver to an unknown recipient to
> > Exchange IMicrosoft, Exchange does not reject the message
> > outright, like what Sendmail does. Only when the message has
> > been accepted does Exchange find out the recipient is bogus,
> > and then sends the bounced mail to InterScan as an outbound
> > mail. So, this mail follows the normal outbound path.
> >
> > my next question would be is there anything I can do to stop
> > this? I have been going into the IMS queue every couple of
> > hours and deleting the emails
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Durkee, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 5:10 PM
> > Subject: RE: IMC Queues
> >
> >
> > > The answer is that some spammer, pretending to send from a spoofed
> > > yahoo
> > address, sent spam to four bad or former addresses in your
> > domain. The messages you see are the resulting NDRs trying to
> > go back to the forged and non-existant yahoo address. Feel
> > free to delete them, they aren't going anywhere anyway.
> > >
> > > -Peter
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Chris Haaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 13:55
> > > To: Exchange Discussions
> > > Subject: Re: IMC Queues
> > >
> > >
> > > Perhaps I am dim but I can only find 1 entry with no
> > replies for IMS
> > > or
> > IMC
> > > queue has <> in Originator Field.
> > > Any other ideas?
> > > The weird thing is there is something like 6 entries for
> > each outgoing
> > > address
> > >
> > > co.boing.com  <>
> > > co.boing.com  <>
> > > co.boing.com  <>
> > > co.boing.com  <>
> > > yahoo.com  <>
> > > yahoo.com  <>
> > > yahoo.com  <>
> > > yahoo.com  <>
> > >
> > > etc. all with the same exact timestamp . . .
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Andy David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 3:53 PM
> > > Subject: RE: IMC Queues
> > >
> > >
> > > > Burrow your way to the FAQ.
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Chris Haaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 3:45 PM
> > > > To: Exchange Discussions
> > > > Subject: IMC Queues
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Looking in the IMC Queue for Outbound Mail awaiting
> > delivery I see
> > > > 10-20 enteries to the same address all with <> as the
> > originator . .
> > > > . Has the worm struck you think?
> > > >
> > > > "It is the province of knowledge to speak,
> > > >             and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen".
> > > >     Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-94); U.S. writer, physician.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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