Being open for relay won't get you more spam, but it will enable others to send spam using your machine. There's an important difference. If you're receiving lots of spam then you might want to look at an antispam product to install on your Exchange server, or between it and the Internet, or contracting with an antispam solution provider.
If your server is open for relay, close it! Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jees Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 6:16 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: getting heaps of spams Ed, thanks for your response. Getting spams on my exchange is a daily retual to me, however, not as much as 4000 or more spam emails withing the hour. Last time, when i had such a high volume of spam, we had a look at \\exchange server\tracking.log and figured out that one of the exchange server within the enterprise had open for relaying. I can't remember now how we worked it out then, but probably experienced heaps of entries from the spamming exchange server. Hope i am making sense. --- "Ed Crowley [MVP]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can be completely relay secure yet get bombarded with spam. All > Exchange servers will let spam through. Looking at the Internet > headers of each message will show the stamps of the servers which > handled the message. > > Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP > Freelance E-Mail Philosopher > Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jees > Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 5:21 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: getting heaps of spams > > i have exchange 5.5 sp4 running on win 2k sp4. We have number of > exchanges around the globe that has trusts between them. > > I am currently getting tens of thausands of spam email, however my > exchange is tested and has no relying problem. I am expecting one of > the exchange servers within the global enterprise is open to relying. > > Can someone tell me how i can check which exchange server letting all > these spam email to drain to my server? > > thank you all in advance > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 > http://search.yahoo.com/top2003 > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus _________________________________________________________________ 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
