You could try this:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324021

Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Freelance E-Mail Philosopher
Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Anderson
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 6:16 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Help! Mail Queue is all blocked up...

Hello everyone,

I am running Exchange 2000 on an internal server.  I am publishing the SMTP
Service on my ISA Box, and I am routing all my mail to Xwall (a popular Spam
package) which in turn routes mail to the Exchange Box.
Xwall runs on Port 25, and Exchange SMTP (incoming) runs on Port 24 (so they
can both coexist on the same box).

Since Xwall has no knowledge of the users on the system, it accepts ALL
stinking e-mail messages, and then forwards them to the Exchange box.
Since spammers use blind name lists, attempting to get lucky, and hit all
the possible [EMAIL PROTECTED], the Exchange Server wants to send NDR reports
to EACH and EVERY piece of Spam mail that comes into the system.

So as you can imagine, I have thousands of messages queued up - and it takes
FOREVER for a LEGIT message, initiated from a user on the system, to
actually make it out of the system and reach the remote mail server for
delivery - because it's competing with all these outgoing NDR (and whatever
else) messages.

What can I do???  Short of running Exchange Raw - so it can deny the message
on the spot (since it has direct knowledge of the users on the system), I
don't know what else to do.

Can anybody help?  Are there other suggestions I can try, in order to reduce
my mail congestion problem?

Thanks in advance,

Mike

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