Good morning, I want to reduce the amount of NDR's I'm sending out and I may have to change the way I handle mail. Right now mail comes in via 2 gateways sitting in the DMZ, they are processed for Spam/viruses using GFI & Mcafee products. It is sent on to Exchange at this point. This is where the problem starts. I have Exchange set up for filtering and if a non-user mail arrives Exchange generates the 550 5.1.1 . This is great for Exchange, But now the gateway servers are left with undeliverable mail and quite often can't be "returned to sender". I would like to have the 550 5.1.1 filtering done on the gateways but can't quite figure it out. The gateway servers are not members of the domain, but since I am also the firewall admin I can setup routes in & out to the domain controllers if needed. Using the LDAP Lookup tab did no good I believe because they are not members. Any ideas? Doug (Exchange/ActiveDirectory 2003, gateways are MS Server 2000's)