RE: Exchange services shutting down intermittently
- From: "Clarke, Scott" <Scott.Clarke@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:59:07 -0330
I am running the same OS and Exchange Versions as you and had experienced the
same problem a few weeks ago. My problem appeared to be the amount of NDR
messages in the queues caused by SPAM trying to do Directory Harvesting. I
believe our server was trying to send NDR to non-existent recipients thus
causing the services issue. I restarted our Exchange server and the services
stayed running for awhile but outbound email from internal clients took quite
long to get out. I deleted all the postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx messages (without
NDR) and configured our GFI MailEssentials anti-spam software to delete any
messages that are trying to do Directory harvesting.
Since doing this our server has been running smoothly.
Hope this helps.
PS - You should configure Symantec to Exclude all Exchange directories (exclude
the edb and stm files as well) I have seen databased get corrupt because of
the anti-virus scanning.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Mt. Pleasant [mailto:MtPleasantJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 11:06 AM
To: [ExchangeList]
Subject: [exchangelist] Exchange services shutting down intermittently
http://www.MSExchange.org/
We're running Exchange 2000 Enterprise on a Windows 2000 server. Small office.
Since Sunday last, some of our Exchange services, including WWW publishing
have been shutting themselves off. The services that go down are: MS Exchange
IMAP4, MSExchange Pop3, MS Exchange Routing Engine, Simple Mail Transport
Protocol,
World Wide Web Publishing Service.
Has anyone seen this before? Any thoughts on what might be causing it?
Anything to do with Symantec?
Thanks.
Jan Mt Pleasant
Strategies for the Global Environment
2101 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22201
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