What's the size of the e-mail? Did the message bump up against any receiver's received message size limit? Since the boss flooded the outgoing queues with what amounted to 3180 messages, did the server choke, and the sessions time out with the receiving sites?
John Matteson Geac Corporate ISS (404) 239 - 2981 Atlanta, Georgia, USA. -----Original Message----- From: Reed OBrien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 1:15 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Accidental Spamming > OK so my boss tells me he sent out a mass mailing. And has now > received a dozen replies that have asked him to stop sending as they have received 9 copies already. > > We are running E2K and O2K. He has a list, in word, of email > addresses. He copied and pasted them into O2Ks bcc field. He assures me he didn't accidentally paste nine times. So I go to the server and look at the smtp queues. What do I find but hundreds of remote delivery queues waiting to retry. All started at the same time, yesterday at 5:04PM. They also all have the same 1385 recipients listed. > > So there are hundreds of queues trying to send the same message to the > same 1385 recipients. So I try to select them all. Alas shift select won't select more than 1! So I right click the main queues gear icon and select disable all. Then I right click an actual queue folder... and select enumerate 100 messages. Then I delete the enumerated message. Wow what a pain in the butt. I'll be there for hours doing them 1 by 1. > At this point I notice that the message count in the queue is still one, but there are no messages to enumerate now!!! > > So I close system manager and go get a cup of coffee thinking "There > has to be a better way." Yes there is on Exchange Discussions. So I go back Open Sys Manager and to my surprise the message I deleted...I can enumerate again!! > > What's happening..ARGH! > > Has anyone seen this? How can I actually delete them? Why is the > same message to the same recipients in hundreds of different queues? > Is it O2K? The max recipients per message is set to 64000 and the > original went to 3180. > > Please help. > TIA > > > > -- > Reed L. O'Brien > VisionOnline, Inc. > 10511 Braddock Road, Suite 200 > Fairfax, VA 22032 > 703-425-4800 > 703-425-6885 fax > www.visiononline.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --last line of the author's message-- > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
