You don't have to enumerate messages to delete them. Just right-click on the queue and select Delete (without NDR)
-----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]
