RE: Notification:

[Wayne Hanks]

Title: Notification:

One of the many tricks I have learnt on this list is the following.  Create a Distribution List with no recipients.  Then add all the e-mail addresses for the ex staff to the e-mail addresses list for this DL.  Then what happens is that any mail delivered to these email addresses do not send out NDRs and are dropped in the bit bucket.  I believe that the messages are simply deleted.  However, you still have the situation that you are paying for the delivery of these messages to your site, and in places like here in OZ where telecomms are not cheap, this adds up. A combination of the above technique and retaining the old mailbox (hidden and removed from any internal DLs) for a month or two before putting it on the above DL and deleting the mailbox works for us.  This allows you to try and get rid of as many of the subscriptions as possible to minimise the junk that is sent to your site.

 

cheers

Wayne Hanks
Systems Administrator
Paterson Ord Minnett
Ph 08 9263 1114 fax 08 9325 1086
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Channon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, 29 April 2002 22:54
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Notification:

Notification: Inbound Mail Failure

Out of curiosity on my Exchange 5.5 sp3 running on NT4 server, in IMS I turned on "Always send notification when Non delivery reports are generated" and boy I am amazed how much rubbish mail is bouncing around. All the mailboxes of people who have departed the company from way back when still receive email, or should I say email is still trying to be delivered to these non existent mail boxes. What I want to know is how long do these emails hang around and do they have an impact on server performance ?. Being the Administrator  (no formal training in Exchange so please forgive me where the obvious is not obvious for me in Exchange) I get all these notifications and obviously have access to the email and attachments ( Its amazing what some of these senior managers who have left had sent to there works email accounts ) so I need to know what impact this has on my server.

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Regards
Mike Channon
MCP - CNA -CCSA.
Senior Server Engineer,
Systems and Infrastructure Support.

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