users no longer exist - what to do with their mail?

Our head office recently laid off a couple of hundred people. I get mail for these people every day and my server is spending a lot of time sending NDR to the senders. Can anyone suggest a good method for handling email coming in to non-existent users? Louanne [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Create an empty DL and add all the non-existent users' SMTP addresses to the DL's e-mail addresses. -Original Message- From: Louanne Fournier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 12:20 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: users no longer exist - what to do with

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Doesn't Exchange bounce back any type of message to the originator of the message that the account no longer exists, though? Or really, maybe I should say shouldn't it? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fyodorov, Andrey Sent: Monday,

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I guess he doesn't want to see their NDRs in the outgoing queue, especially when the bounces are trying to go to bogus addresses. Sincerely, Andrey Fyodorov Systems Engineer Messaging and Collaboration Spherion -Original Message- From: Matt Hoffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

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Those ndrs are filling up my queues and I think substantially slowing down my server. Plus most of the addresses on the ndrs are invalid and so can't be sent to them anyway. Louanne Fournier, CCNA, MCSE Technical Analyst (905) 319-8378 Ext. 240 FAX (905) 319-8397 www.nexterna.com NEXTERNA

RE: users no longer exist - what to do with their mail?

If they're substantially slowing down your server, you have really large problems, as the processing of NDRs doesn't exactly put a heavy load on the server. That said, you can either add the users' old smtp addresses to an empty DL (as someone else mentioned) so the messages will essentially go

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Disable copying NDRs to the admin account. I only get the true error ones rather than all the crap stuff. -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original Message- From: Louanne

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Thanks everyone for the ideas and assistance. Will I have to clean up \dev\null in the same way you have to manually clean the badmail directory? Louanne Fournier, CCNA, MCSE Technical Analyst (905) 319-8378 Ext. 240 FAX (905) 319-8397 www.nexterna.com NEXTERNA E-MAIL CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE

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no -Original Message- From: Louanne Fournier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 3:03 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: users no longer exist - what to do with their mail? Thanks everyone for the ideas and assistance. Will I have to clean up \dev\null in

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No. Saying \dev\null is another way to say that the message simply disappears into the ether. It vanishes. No admin intervention required. Ben Winzenz Network Engineer Gardner White (317) 581-1580 ext 418 -Original Message- From: Louanne Fournier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted

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Ummm... \dev\null is nowhere. It's an eternally empty bit bucket. -Original Message- From: Louanne Fournier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 3:03 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: users no longer exist - what to do with their mail? Thanks everyone for