This sounds like it's right on the ball.  If there is SPAM in your
outbound queues, then you are being used as a SPAM relay, which is
something you should REALLY avoid at all costs.

-Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Chenault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Posted At: Friday, December 13, 2002 3:23 PM
> Posted To: Exchange
> Conversation: Exch5.5 - IMC (port 25) going down every 
> morning (for past 3 week s)
> Subject: Re: Exch5.5 - IMC (port 25) going down every morning 
> (for past 3 week s)
> 
> 
> Perhaps you should close your machine against relay.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shawn Connelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 1:19 PM
> Subject: Exch5.5 - IMC (port 25) going down every morning 
> (for past 3 week
> s)
> 
> 
> > I am wondering if you have the same problem I am experiencing.
> >
> > Are you using Exchange 5.5?
> >
> > For the past 3 weeks, my IMC has been going down (port 25 
> down) every 
> > morning around 4am.  In the out box, I'll always find about 
> 10 or so 
> > SPAM messages.  Most of the time I can stop / start IMC and port 25 
> > will come back alive, however, occasionally the stop / start method 
> > doesn't work.  I have found it necessary to clear out the 
> SPAM first.
> >
> > Anyone else experience this.  Previously, this problem would occur 
> > about once in every five months but now it's every single day!!
> >
> > Shawn
> >
> > P.S. You can stop and start IMC in a batch file with the following
> command:
> > net stop MSExchangeIMC
> > net start MSExchangeIMC
> >
> >
> > 
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> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Subject: How to resend stuck messages in IMC
> > From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Eve=20Jimah?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 13:13:52 +0000 (GMT)
> > X-Message-Number: 8
> >
> > MTA stops intermetently, after re starting the service noticed that 
> > mails are stuck in the IN out OUT folder of the IMC. Each 
> folder size 
> > is over 5gb. In view of the size of the mails I do not want 
> to delete 
> > the content of these folder.
> >
> > My question now is how to resend these messages.
> > My server is an NT4 box with exchange 5.5 service pack
> > 3
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
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