Steve
I use Mail Essentials on my Exchange server. It did real well with all the worms and with filtering. You can add the spammers and also filter out invalid return domains and prevent mail relaying. I got on the orbs list awhile ago and with Mail Essentials finally got it so their bogus mails didn't go anywhere.
Pat Banyas
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Jacobson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 9:31 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Repost: Spam to non-existent e-mail address-PLEASE HELP
Please help!
I administer the e-mail server (Exchange 5.5) for my small consulting
company (DJI). I am getting lots of spam mail addressed to non-existent
e-mail addresses. These addresses have never been used. Some seem to be
valid
addresses ([EMAIL PROTECTED], or [EMAIL PROTECTED]), while others seem to be made up
from some random character generator ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
I get about 30-50 of these messages per day. Naturally, they are bounced by
the server, and I route them to the Administrator mailbox. Some of the
bounce messages back to the sender also get bounced (mainly due to invalid
addresses).
I am now getting e-mail from someone telling me (actually they are sending
it to one of the invalid e-mail addresses) not to spam them anymore. I have
spam relaying turned off in Exchange.
Do any of you folks have this problem, and if so, what do you do about it?
I am desperate, and am considering disabling the djicom MX record in the
dns (for a week) so that (hopefully) this spam will be stopped at the
source.
This is causing me quite a problem.
Steve Jacobson
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