My Exchange server responded timely. Our provider (MCI) provides backup mail queuing services in the event our T1 is down and it appears their servers are a bit slow to respond. Regards, Mike Liddekee Network Engineer Humco Holding Group, Inc. 7400 Alumax Dr. Texarkana, TX 75501 Ph: (903) 831-7808 ext 697 -----Original Message----- From: Simon Bound [mailto:simon.bound@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 10:42 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: mail queuing up for extended period[Scanned] http://www.MSExchange.org/ Try - http://www.dnsreport.com/ Accessing your mail servers takes ages. Simon -----Original Message----- From: Mike Liddekee [mailto:mliddekee@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 4:22 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] mail queuing up for extended period[Scanned] http://www.MSExchange.org/ We seem to be having a problem as of late. When anyone tries to send an outgoing email, it seems to take 10-20minutues for the message to be sent by Exchange. I don't seem to be experiencing a problem with incoming mail. I can send any number of test emails in from the outside and they all arrive very fast. Its just the outgoing that seems to be affected. I do notice that if I go to the SMTP queue there are a lot of entries for what looks like undeliverable return messages from postmaster. It would appear that most of these domains would be spam-related. I believe a lot of these are probably incoming spam for users that are no longer with the company and exchange is trying to send NDR messages to non-existent spam addresses. Any ideas how I could clean this up a bit? Also would all of these extras cause the delays in regular outbound email? Any help/advice would be appreciated. Regards, Mike Liddekee Network Engineer Humco Holding Group, Inc. 7400 Alumax Dr. Texarkana, TX 75501 Ph: (903) 831-7808 ext 697 ------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------