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No open relay, just TONS of submissions
No open relay, just TONS of submissions
- I have a very strange problem. I can completely remove the send and receive connectors from exchange with edgetransport.exe disabled, but as soon as I enable it, I starting getting thousands upon thousands of email submissions (I assume failed relays)! So what gives? I'm at a total loss.The web has tons of fixes for open relay, with only a small percentage of the fixes that actually work. I haven't found anything that might help me with my issue. Can anyone shed some light?
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- Well, who are the submissions to? are these legit recipients within your org? I'm not sure that this problem is related to "open relay", as this would describe the behavior of a server relaying email from the internet and back out to the internet without authentication.
There is also an option to reject messages to recipients who are not in the GAL. If you enable this, you might reduce the load on your transport servers.
Mike Crowley A+, Network+, Security+, MCT, MCSE, MCTS, MCITP: Enterprise Administrator / Messaging Administrator
- Proposed As Answer byMike Crowley Tuesday, November 03, 2009 2:43 PM
- They're not messages to anyone in my orginization. Most of them are to hinet.net addresses. My main problem is that my mail queue is filling up very quickly without any send or receive connectors installed. Is that even possible?
- When you enumerate the queues what types of messages are within? Are they all bounce backs? Its posible they were generated after some time after they were submitted and these are just finally the NDRs getting generated.
