I have a "Terminated
Employees" mailbox that is hidden from the GAL, that I add the SMPT
address of former employees to it. I made myself the owner of this
mailbox, went into it and setup a rule to move all incoming messages to the
deleted items folder. There is apparently no upper limit to the number of
smtp addresses you can have on a mailbox. It's really cut down the number
of NDR's my administrator mailbox was receiving by probably 90%, and cut down
my frustration level by at least that much. I used to ignore those NDR's
until I just couldn't stand it anymore and then would go on a rampage of trying
to unsubscribe these people from those mailing lists, but that doesn't
always work. This is a much more workable solution.
Incidentally, I got this
idea from someone on this discussion list several months ago. Can't
remember who it was, or I would give them credit. So, whoever sent that
suggestion to this list, THANK YOU!!! It has really been a wonderful way
to manage those pesky NDR's.
-----Original
Message-----
From: Matthew Carpenter
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Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 10:13
AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Notification:
I set mine to deliver to
my mailbox too. I see messages hopping for weeks, and Chris is right, some of
these guys never clean their lists up. Since I added a 3rd party
filter though, most of this crap never sees Exchange at all, and thus never
cause a load. I am curious how that affects Ex though.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Norris
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Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 10:03
AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Notification:
Depending
on the source, some of these junk mail senders never clean out their
lists. So, unless you can unsubscribe the non existent mail box they will
continue to send mail until they decide to update the list or forever, which
ever comes first. Also, the junk mailers also sell their lists to each
other so I have seen old mailboxes start receiving new junk mail over a year
after they were removed.
-----Original
Message-----
From: Mike Channon
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 10:54
AM
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.
____________________________________________
Regards
Mike Channon
MCP - CNA -CCSA.
Senior Server Engineer,
Systems and Infrastructure Support.
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