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 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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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