One User constantly has mail stuck in SMTP queue 3

[wahnula]

Hi there,

Since my NDR problems and implementing the information in:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=886208

I have noticed there is one user, and one user only, who constantly has a small amount of his mail stuck in the SMTP queue. Today it's 6 emails, since 10 am. I guess they eventually go through, or get deleted, but this bother me, that a user has unpredictable mail service. As I said, this only happens to this one user. I have noticed that his stuck emails tend to have multiple recipients, and one of the addresses is called out as in "SBS SMTP connector - aol.com (SMTP CONNECTOR). There are no "postmaster" emails.

When I ran the KB above, this user was flooded with emails from months before, I'll bet it was when I stopped & started the Virtual SMTP Server.

Since it's just this one user should I save his email & contacts into a .pst file, delete the user, and re-create the user? I sure would like to solve this, I feel like a failure as a sysadmin.

Tony

"If it can't take it, I don't want it

 

[wahnula]

Problem solved...I think. We were in trouble, as I had created test mail accounts in hotmail and aol and the emails never arrived, as spam, trash, not a sign that they'd been sent.

What I did was run CEICW and choose "forward all email to the specified host" and put the ISPs SMTP server, smtp.comcast.net into the box (smarthost I guess), left everything else alone. The queues emptied out, test emails are going through, all is well in my world.

Is there anybody out there that can pee on my cake and point out reasons why this might be a bad idea?

I figure they have a big, shiny, SPAM-proof mailserver versus my squeaky, tiny SPAM-infested sewer of an SMTP server.

Thanks to all!

Tony

"If it can't take it, I don't want it