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[koresnordic]

I hope this is easy, as I am not that experienced with Domino / Notes. At the moment, when someone sends an e-mail to us, and the person doesn't exist, an e-mail is sent back automtically by Domino saying this. But in the case of virus's or spam this is not normally the address they came from. So what I would like to do, is to turn off this auto reply function. So if the recipient doesn't exist on our system, no response is sent.

Thanks for looking at this post, even if you can't help.



Graham

 

[Packet7]

Hello,
Are you on R6? This reason I ask is because I think there is a setting that prevents the mail routing from accepting a message for someone not in the NAB. Check it out...

Rgds,

John Judge

 

[koresnordic]

Thaknks for replying JOhm, but no we are on 5.0.11.



Graham

 

[koresnordic]

Sorry, my typing is bad. Sorry John.



Graham

 

[Packet7]

Hello,
I don't know of a way to do this in R5. Some virus software allows you to quarantine a virus with notification to the sender. This is how we addressed this in R5 before we upgraded to R6.
Hope this helps.

Rgds,

John Judge

 

[koresnordic]

Solved. In case anybody else searches on this, this is the resolution:

1) Open Administrator and goto the "Configuration" tab.
2) Expand the "Messaging" section and select "Configurations".
3) Select to edit the relevent config
4) Select the "Router/SMTP" tab
5) Select the "advanced" tab
6) Select the "Controls" tab
7) You should see "Hold undeliverable mail" on the right hand side. Make this "enabled".

Now all e-mail that comes in for a non-existant address will not send out an auto-reply. Also any mail that your users send that cannot reach someone will fail, without a warning. To deal with these messages, you need to again open administrator and select the "Messaging" Tab. You will see you general mailboxes. Click on a mail box to see it's contents. All held messages will be listed with an exclamation mark to the left of them. I normally delete those that didn't originate internally. The others, I select and then select release "selected held messages for the final time", so that if they fail again, the sender is informed.

Hope this helps someone else.



Graham