Guess I should have mentioned that this is an Exchange 2000 sp3 system. Jon
-----Original Message----- From: Martin, Jon Posted At: Monday, January 12, 2004 8:35 AM Posted To: exchange Conversation: Incorrect NDRs & Miss-Addressed Email Queues Subject: Incorrect NDRs & Miss-Addressed Email Queues Yesterday morning the Unix box our Exchange system hands off Internet-bound email to was having a problem, as initially evidenced on the Exchange side by the filling up of remote SMTP queues. As part of the troubleshooting process I restarted the SMTP virtual server. When I did this it flushed all of the email out with NDRs indicating that it 'Could not deliver the message in the time limit specified.' These emails had been in the queue less than 12 hours, so that message seems a little pre-mature. The settings for this are default, and I believe that it should wait at least two days before generating such and NDR. Additionally, it flushed out about 100 messages from somewhere that had been sent in the past month to miss-identified internal users. Primarily these were emails automatically generated by internal systems that send emails addressed similar to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the cases of these rejected emails whoever configured these internal notifications miss-spelled the userid. These emails were not in the queues I know of and normally monitor, and they generated the same NDR as above - 'Could not deliver the message in the time limit specified'. So, the two questions before the house are: 1. Why did bouncing the SMTP service cause 'Could not deliver the message in the time limit specified' NDRs for email that had been queued for a relatively short period of time? 2. Where are the miss-addressed emails being stored, and why are they being held there for up to a month? Many thanks . . . Jon _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
