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Not sure of cheaper solutions...we use Bindview here. It definitely does some nice reporting.

Thanks again, everyone. Looks like I wasn't so alone with my problem, after all. Brontosaurus' answer sounds like a winner!

On your connections tab, what do you have for Message Delivery? Are you using DNS?

I appreciate all of the feedback, so far. I have done the no relay setting in Exchange. It definitely worked! I got a call within minutes from someone using my box for SMTP messaging (routing.) However, it did not stop these messages from appearing in my outbound queue with no originator...

I thought about that, except there are so many. We didn't always have them either. Seemed to kick in a several months back. I thought it might just be auto-replies for out of office--but I have that turned off to the outside. All of the addresses for this stuff points to domains like...

Nasty situation. There is a utility called Upromote which will let you change a bdc to a member server or the other way around. However, you can't change the domain name on a bdc/pdc; if you make the new domain, you won't be able to sink up the accounts, but you could set up a trust...

I am seeing a lot of messages in my outbound queue going to addresses that look spammy, but they have no originator. Where are they coming from?? Thank you.

For example, the default message sent out when someone exceeds their mailbox limits. By default it recommends cleaning your mailbox or use .pst files to create more space. Our policy prohibits the use of .pst files, so this message is a bad thing! Anyone know how to change this sort of thing...

Whenever I do the sort of restore you are talking about, the database usually restores in an "inconsistent" state. The service will never start while this is the case. You have to do a little massaging to get it back. This usually involved the use of the exchange utilities eseutil...