I have read about other folks having troubles with thier outbound queue getting hammered, and mine is not exception. My question about this involved the IMC properties tab called Rounting and then under that, the routing restrictions. I have noticed that when I have " hosts and clients that successfully auth" box checked, my queue gets hammered with tons of junk. Some with originators with adress like [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the anti loop <>. some of these <> are in the thousands from yahoo.com and aol.com etc. Now, when I take that check mark off, leaving only "hosts and clients with these IP address'" my queue totally calms down and my processor stops pegging at 100%. Why would this change make that difference? Am I allowing the spam through for some reason with that check box unchecked so it doesnt pile up in the queue? By taking off the " hosts and clients that successfully auth" , am I denying an internal user who might have a mass mailer access to the outbound queue? To me it would still hit the queue, just return to them a 550. Any thoughts on this would be great! My environment is Windows 2000 server, with 5.5. No AD, and current Service packs. Thanks, Ron
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