RE: Undeliverables

  • From: "John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)" <johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'[ExchangeList]'" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:33:03 -0700

It may mean a couple of things.

It could be that Norton is catching Sobig on inbound messages, and is
attempting (stupidly) to notify the sender (forged) that the message they
sent was infected.

John Tolmachoff MCSE CSSA
Engineer/Consultant
eServices For You
www.eservicesforyou.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Mt. Pleasant [mailto:MtPleasantJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 10:32 AM
> To: [ExchangeList]
> Subject: [exchangelist] Undeliverables
> 
> http://www.MSExchange.org/
> 
> My network administrator is on vacation and I don't have a clue what is
going on
> here.  If someone could tell me what to do, I would really appreciate it.
> 
> We're running Exchange 2000 on a Win2K server with Norton antivirus on the
> Exchange server, our file and printservers and on our workstations. We
have a
> Cisco Pix firewall.
> 
> The Administrator's mailbox is filling up with undeliverables from "the
System
> Administrator."  Are we a Sobig victim?  The undeliverables all have
random
> subject lines and are addressed to random people.  Here's one of the
> undeliverables:
> 
> Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
> 
>       Subject:        beebe
>       Sent:   8/27/03 12:08 PM
> 
> The following recipient(s) could not be reached:
> 
>       rejoice@xxxxxxxx on 8/27/03 1:21 PM
>             There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient's
email
> server.  Please contact your system administrator.
>             <pewclimate.org #5.5.0 smtp;550 <rejoice@xxxxxxxx>: inactive
user>
> 
> What does this mean?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Jan MtPleasant
> 
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