Message queues filling up. 2

[Zamuk]

okay. I'm at my wits end here. I have spent about 5 mintues searching this particular site for the subject line and get nothing. I have googled the Internet and found stuff that doesn't pertain to me. here it is:

in My ESM/Servers/Server Name/Queues I have a billion SMTP Connnectors. I have gone through about 300k of them and deleted (no NDR). however, there are tsill about 2k of them left.

My server will not send or recieve emails.

1. how can I get rid of all these SMPT Connectors other than one by one?

2. What happened to my server that permitted all of these SMTP Connectors to occur. All of them are targeted to boogus places in the UK. IE: "NationWide <admin.nationwide.co.uk>.. etc., etc., etc.

Zam

 

[markdmac]

You can get rid of them easy enough. Browse the server to C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\MailRoot\VS1\Queues

If Exchange was installed some place else you may need to alter the above drive or path.

Delete the messages from there.

Sounds to me like you got spammed big time. Are you using IMF?

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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[ntinlin]

Do you send mail using DNS lookup or a Smart Host?

i.e. Direct to the recipients e-mail system or via your ISP or a service like Postini?

A company I was working with had a BIG problem with spam until I activated IMF and turned off auto-response to the net for Out of Office messages. Thankfully they didn't have an open relay as well or they'd have been on their knees.

They are changing over to Postini after I gave them the IMF reports of about 16,000 incoming mails a day (out of about 20,000) of SCL 8 or above.

Neill

 

[Zamuk]

Sorry for the late reply. After posting this message I continued surfing the Internet and found a nifty little work around from MS's website.

Mark: I don't think that I am using IMF on this SBS2k3 Standard edition. I'll see about looking at Technet to see about a step by step to getting Internet Mail Filter up and running should it not be already.

Ntinlin: we have a sort of mixture going on. We all use DNS lookup for both Incoming and Outgoing. However, the owner at one time had (for MANY years) pop3 accounts that she still wants to access (Claiming that because this email addressed exsisted for more than 12 years, there are tons of folks that will need this in the advent they decide they need her services. Makes sense, I guess). anyway, on this exact same SBS2k3 server there's a PoP3 configuration to pull down email from these 10 accounts at our FORMER ISP's servers. Please note that I said FORMER ISP.

thank you both for helping me! I'll see if I can find that KB Article from MS. In short, I had to create a new virtual SMTP and make it default. ALL the spam mails migrated to that new SMTP. Over 23k worth of emails spanning about 3 days where built up. Once they were all migrated I was instructed to simply delete all those emails at once. Upon doing so, I reconfigured the original SMTP, then deleted that the new one. Now, things are running SMMOOoooothly. <knock on wood>.

Zam