Ummm... \dev\null is nowhere. It's an eternally empty bit bucket. -----Original Message----- From: Louanne Fournier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 3:03 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: users no longer exist - what to do with their mail?
Thanks everyone for the ideas and assistance. Will I have to clean up \dev\null in the same way you have to manually clean the badmail directory? Louanne Fournier, CCNA, MCSE Technical Analyst (905) 319-8378 Ext. 240 FAX (905) 319-8397 www.nexterna.com NEXTERNA E-MAIL CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This transmission is intended to be strictly confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you may not disclose, print, copy or disseminate this information. If you have received this in error, please reply and notify the sender (only) and delete the message. Unauthorized interception of this e-mail is a violation of federal criminal law. -----Original Message----- From: Exchange Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 1:23 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: users no longer exist - what to do with their mail? If they're substantially slowing down your server, you have really large problems, as the processing of NDRs doesn't exactly put a heavy load on the server. That said, you can either add the users' old smtp addresses to an empty DL (as someone else mentioned) so the messages will essentially go to \dev\null or you can turn off notifications for a while. Your choice. -----Original Message----- From: Louanne Fournier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 1:03 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: users no longer exist - what to do with their mail? Those ndrs are filling up my queues and I think substantially slowing down my server. Plus most of the addresses on the ndrs are invalid and so can't be sent to them anyway. Louanne Fournier, CCNA, MCSE Technical Analyst (905) 319-8378 Ext. 240 FAX (905) 319-8397 www.nexterna.com NEXTERNA E-MAIL CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This transmission is intended to be strictly confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you may not disclose, print, copy or disseminate this information. If you have received this in error, please reply and notify the sender (only) and delete the message. Unauthorized interception of this e-mail is a violation of federal criminal law. -----Original Message----- From: Matt Hoffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 12:34 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: users no longer exist - what to do with their mail? Doesn't Exchange bounce back any type of message to the originator of the message that the account no longer exists, though? Or really, maybe I should say "shouldn't it?" -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fyodorov, Andrey Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 12:29 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: users no longer exist - what to do with their mail? Create an empty DL and add all the non-existent users' SMTP addresses to the DL's e-mail addresses. -----Original Message----- From: Louanne Fournier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 12:20 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: users no longer exist - what to do with their mail? Our head office recently laid off a couple of hundred people. I get mail for these people every day and my server is spending a lot of time sending NDR to the senders. Can anyone suggest a good method for handling email coming in to non-existent users? 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