"Daylight come and I wanna go home!" Create a distribution list with no members and add these departed sailors' e-mail addresses to this list.
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 Biesecker, Noel E. IT1(SW) Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 12:31 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Email inbound to deleted mailboxes wasting bandwidth 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 everything 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]
