RE: mail still arriving to deleted accounts

  • From: John Mason <John.Mason.Jr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:53:08 -0500

I use CanIt-Pro as my spam filter and it has the capability of doing an LDAP
lookup against my Exchange 5.5 server.
http://www.canit.ca

Vamsoft has a low cost DNSbl checker and has a third party script on their
site to do an AD lookup
http://www.vamsoft.com/orf/tools.asp  

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marvin Cummings [mailto:mcummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 5:33 PM
> To: [ExchangeList]
> Subject: [exchangelist] RE: mail still arriving to deleted accounts
> 
> 
> http://www.MSExchange.org/
> 
> Yes I mean being delivered to existing and deleted users. I 
> currently have the mail being forwarded to an account I use 
> to manage all spam hitting the server. This account is 
> holding all of the crap that's being sent to multiple 
> existing and deleted user accounts. The only problem is that 
> I do get false-positives from time to time so I'm wondering 
> if I can keep mail from arriving to the user accounts that I 
> know are deleted from the network?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Smith [mailto:ishmell@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 5:24 PM
> To: [ExchangeList]
> Subject: [exchangelist] RE: mail still arriving to deleted accounts
> 
> http://www.MSExchange.org/
> 
> If by "delivered to them", you mean that mail is still being 
> sent to those 
> addresses, but not stored in a mailbox (thus, an NDR is being 
> sent out).. 
> then there is nothing you can do about it. IF you mean that 
> this mail is 
> being stored in some mailbox that has no user account, then 
> you need to 
> either purge the mailbox or assign it to a dummy account and 
> then delete the 
> dummy account and mailbox.
> 
> Amal ;)
> 
> 
> >From: "Marvin Cummings" <mcummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: [exchangelist] mail still arriving to deleted accounts
> >Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:18:57 -0500
> >
> >http://www.MSExchange.org/
> >
> >Exchange 2000 w/SP3 on Windows 2000 /SP4 network.
> >
> >I'm constantly getting mail, spam, to accounts that no 
> longer reside on 
> >my
> >network. These accounts have been deleted for quite a while 
> yet mail is 
> >still being delivered to them. What or is there anything I 
> can do to keep 
> >this mail from coming in?
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> >
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