Hi Zoran, Ok great. Did that. Is it necessary to restart anything? I cleared out all the queues so I will see if anything further builds up. Is this what most people do? Disable the NDRs? Goran Jovanovic The LAN Shoppe 2345 Yonge Street, Suite 302 Toronto, Ontario M4P 2E5 Phone: (416) 440-1167 x-2113 Cell: (416) 931-0688 E-Mail: gjovanovic@xxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: Zoran [mailto:zmarjanovic@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 4:45 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Re: What do you do about NDRs http://www.MSExchange.org/ correction > Hi Goran, > > go to ESM, open global settings, Internet Message Formats, open properties of default (or the one you need to configure), click on > advanced tab and clear 'Allow non-delivery reports'. > > Pozdrav Kanadi > > Zoran > > > What do people do about NDRs that are trying to be delivered to external > > addresses that do not exist? > > > > This is a by product of spam. Email comes in for e-mail address that > > does not exist and then Exchange tries to reply that the address is not > > here and but the reply to address is bogus. So Exchange tries for 4 days > > (or whatever) and then gives up but in the mean time there are tons of > > queues waiting for retries. > > > > My understanding is that you cannot tell Exchange not to send out the > > NDR. > > > > Any thoughts would be appreciated > > > > Thanx > > > > =20 > > Goran Jovanovic > > The LAN Shoppe > > 2345 Yonge Street, Suite 302 > > Toronto, Ontario M4P 2E5 > > Phone: (416) 440-1167 x-2113 > > Cell: (416) 931-0688 > > E-Mail: gjovanovic@xxxxxxxxxxx > > =20 > > =20 ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------