Thanks for the info Andy. I think that will help quite a bit. I set it up and added a bunch of the old email address addresses as aliases. I also set a small size limit on it. That brings up another question:
If you have a size limit specified for users' mailboxes, does exchange deny the email when it receives the header information or does it download the whole thing and then deny it? If it denies the email upon receipt of the header information, that would be great. Also, thank you all for your support for us and the rest of our forces. IT1(SW) Biesecker, USN USS DEYO (DD-989) "Strike Destroyer" "Serving with Pride" -----Original Message----- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 10:25 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Inbound email for deleted mailboxes wasting bandwidth. That will stop the NDR's. Which will help some on the bandwidth. It wont stop the mail from coming to the server though. I cant really think of anything would work in that regards with your situation. Like Andy said, be careful out there. -----Original Message----- From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 7:15 PM To: Exchange Discussions 1. Create a Distribution List with no members. 2. Add the SMTP addresses of the people who are no longer there to this Distribution List. 3. Hide the Distribution List. No NDRS, Emails disapear. And be careful out there. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "IT1(SW) Biesecker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 05:03:27 -0800 >Hi everyone. I'm new to this group so here's a quick introduction. I'm >a network Administrator in the US NAVY, currently on board the USS >DEYO. My organization contains about 350 people so it is actually a >fairly small network. While we are underway (as we are now), my >Internet connection bandwidth is approximately 14 Kbps. I manage >everything on my network fairly well, but there are certain things with >Exchange 5.5 that I just can't seem to figure out. That's why I've joined this list. > >Today, my question deals with emails that arrive on my server bound for >mailboxes that no longer exist. My clients and I are Sailors who tend >to spend a lot of time away from home and many times, have no news >available to us. That's why so many of my clients sign up for email >distribution lists for things such as news, jokes, etc., I'm sure you >all know exactly what I'm talking about. Well, when people transfer >away from my command, I remove their accounts and delete their >mailboxes. Recently, I decided to check the Exchange Administrator's >mailbox, something that I have never done in the past. "Holy cow! Look >at all those Inbound Mail Failures and NDR's!" It seems that the >exchange server still downloads the whole email, even if the mailbox >it's being sent to is no longer there. Then, as if that's not enough, >when it doesn't find the mailbox, it sends an NDR back to the >originator, further wasting my bandwidth. I've found that this is >really taking up a lot of my precious bandwidth. I'm talking over 350 NDR's for deleted mailboxes in one day! > >I've checked eveything I can think of in the Internet Mail Connector to >try to prevent the NDR's from being sent back to the Internet, but they >continue to go out. Can someone help me stop these NDR's for Unknown >mailboxes from going out? And what would be better than that would be >to tell my server not to download the message if it is destined for a >deleted mailbox. Is there a way to do this? If anyone can help me out, >I would sure appreciate it. > >IT1(SW) Biesecker, USN >USS DEYO (DD-989) "Strike Destroyer" > >"Serving with Pride" > >_________________________________________________________________ >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] _________________________________________________________________ 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]
