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Subject: Exchange Server 2003
Category: Computers
Asked by: wbof-ga
List Price: $7.50
Posted: 01 Apr 2004 07:44 PST
Expires: 01 May 2004 08:44 PDT
Question ID: 323538
Our server runs Windows 2003 Server and Exchenge Server 2003.  Several
people have left our firm and their accounts have been deleted, but we
still receive email addressed to them (nothing important, it's all
spam).  Exchange sends a delivery service notification (DSN) in
response to every one of these messages we receive and retains a copy
of the DSN in the
\program files\exchsrvr\mailroot\vsi 1\badmail directory.  In less
than 4 months, there were in excess of 35 thousand of these DSN
messages left on the server.

For a number of reasons, including space utilization and the fact that
I don't especially want to be responding to spammers, I want to stop
generating these DSN messages.  If we receive any mail addressed to some
invalid address, I would just like to have it fall into a "black
hole" without a response.

I would like specific instructions how to instruct exchange to do
this.  I am fairly competant using individual computers (i.e. a
workstation) but don't know much about the server (almost sounds like
Sam Cook).  I can, however, follow clear instructions.

What do I do?
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Subject: Re: Exchange Server 2003
From: mcampbell66-ga on 01 Apr 2004 20:25 PST
 
Answer - Create a dist. list in User and Computers. I called mine
Xemployees. Give it an email address and mark it as hidden in the
global dist. list. Then under Exchange Emails add the email addresses
of the Xemployees. Make sure the members list is blank. Then when
email come in they are delivered to this dist list which goes no where
and it automatically deletes the messages without sending out a reject
message. It great..

Matt
Subject: Re: Exchange Server 2003
From: kmilner2-ga on 05 Apr 2004 12:54 PDT
 
you can create a batch file that will delete all files in the BADMAIL
folder and use the AT scheduler to have it run on a regular basis. 
Unless you are interested in looking at your inbound bounced mail,
there is no reason to keep anything in this folder.  The folder was
added in Exchange 200, it did not exist in Exchange 5.5.

The batch file would look something like this:

c:
cd c:\program files\exchsrvr\..\badmail  (fill in the correct path for your server)
del *.* /y


If you do not want to send NDR notices to the internet, turn them off
in then ESM (Exchange System Manager).  You will still collect the
messages in the BADMAIL folder but the batch file will purge them
whenever you have it set to run.
Subject: Re: Exchange Server 2003
From: creation-ga on 07 Apr 2004 05:21 PDT
 
I highly recommend against just instructing messages to go into a
"black hole". This is possible using wildcards, but it's not
recommended, as many spammers assume that if there is no response,
then the email address is valid... then you'll get more SPAM, and even
though it won't take up hard drive space, it'll eventually kill your
connection.

Be patient.. the spam will die down when the users are eventually
culled from the lists.

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