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User that is getting alot of junk mail-How can I change her email address so that she does not get mail from her old email address?

A question submitted on SearchExchange.com I have a user that is getting alot of junk mail. Our mail filter is not very good at all. Currently, the user's email address was the same as her login account, example sandy@domain.com. I added another smtp address and made it the primary and then...

View Answer   |  May 23 2008  2:23 PM GMT
SMTP, Outlook, Spam
asked by ITKE

  10345 pts.

SMTP queues sending spam. How can i find what PC is sending these messages

A question submitted on SearchExchange.com It appears a PC on our network has a virus. This morning I found a few hundred messages in the SMTP queues being sent from security@eppi-card.com and security@eppi-card.co.us to hundreds of domains. Is there a way to see which PC sent these messages?...

View Answer   |  May 14 2008  2:52 PM GMT
SMTP, Exchange 2003, Exchange security
asked by ITKE

  10345 pts.

spam email

I upgraded my symantec virus protection from 2004 to 2008. Before I upgraded to 2008 I had an icon in my Outlook tool bar that said "this is spam". I could highlight all my spam in my inbox and click this is spam and it would go into my spam folder. Now I no longer have that.

View Answer   |  May 6 2008  2:02 PM GMT
Symantec, Outlook, Spam
asked by Jaw

  5 pts.

The Great SPAM experiment

Hey... this is kinda interesting... supersize-me for spam ;) http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-trenches/did-you-see-this-issue-3

Answer Question   |  Apr 10 2008  7:02 PM GMT
Security, Spam, Email
asked by Labnuke99

  26290 pts.

Mail address hijacking - spammer problem

My website is hosted by Seanic.net and of course I have several email accounts via this site. I have recently been receving so many "daemon mailer" messages about rejected emails that I have not sent to recipients that I do not know that I had to temporarily suspend one of my email accounts. ...

View Answer   |  Apr 8 2008  8:13 AM GMT
Spam, Email security, Email abuse
asked by Lolita

  25 pts.

Unwanted e-mails in Exchange Store

Hi - we have Exchange 2003, which we backup with Veritas Backup Exec v10 .. In the daily backup job log, there is a list of e-mails in the Exchange mailboxes which fail to backup - skipped mainly because they "fail to verify" or "are in use" as per the following example :- Access denied to file...

View Answer   |  Mar 20 2008  10:55 AM GMT
Exchange 2003, Spam, Exchange Server backup
asked by Farnaby

  10 pts.

Exchange 2003 Undelivered report (spam)

Every now and then some of my users complain that they have received an Undelivered email report from the administrator, to an email that they have not sent. I have checked the email's content and traced the message on the server but I cannot find out a clear justification of how they received the...

View Answer   |  Mar 16 2008  11:03 AM GMT
Exchange 2003, Spam
asked by Atabani

  25 pts.

Is there a rule to forward spam email to the Outlook junk folder?

I have set up a Linux spam gateway in front of my Exchange 2003 server. It is very efficient and marks spam email by tagging the subject line as “spam.” After the email is tagged, it is sent to the Exchange 2003 server. I would like all email tagged as spam to be automatically sent to the...

View Answer   |  Mar 5 2008  5:27 PM GMT
Exchange 2003, Spam, Outlook 2003
asked by Exchange Ask the Experts

  580 pts.

How can I prevent spam from getting through the Exchange server?

I am running Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Exchange 2003. My client workstations are receiving spam email with vulgar and inappropriate words in the subject and body of the message. I have implemented Microsoft Outlook rules on the workstation computers and have...

View Answer   |  Mar 5 2008  5:03 PM GMT
Exchange 2003, Spam, Spam filters
asked by Exchange Ask the Experts

  580 pts.

Mail server

A company has a problem with their mail server. They are able to recive mails but they cant send any emails.They recive loads of spamm mails about 1000 throught 5h. We thought it might be that all the spam is blocking the server but we dont know what to do does anybody have an idea??

View Answer   |  Feb 7 2008  7:10 AM GMT
Security, Outlook, Spam
asked by Schuest

  10 pts.

Move Tagged SPAM to Junk Folder

Hi All I have setup a Linux SPAM gateway in front of my Exchange2003 server. It is very efficient and marks spam email by tagging the subject line as SPAM. After that the emails are sent to Exchange2003. What I need to do is to have all emails that are tagged as spam to go to the clients junk...

Answer Question   |  Nov 8 2007  4:05 PM GMT
Exchange 2003, Spam, Outlook 2003
asked by Alinux

  0 pts.

Spam Protection

What is the best way to stop spams ?

View Answer   |  Sep 30 2007  11:22 AM GMT
Spam
asked by Sharara

  30 pts.

MX Record & Emails

An MX record is looked-up if an email is being sent to (someone@mydomain.com) but if it directly sent to the mail server (someone@mail.mydomain.com) in this case only the A record it looked-up. Is this true? In the latter case, emails are being sent directly to the mail server&any spam filtering...

View Answer   |  Sep 28 2007  4:39 PM GMT
DNS, Security, Spam
asked by Maryam82

  100 pts.

Receiving undeliverable email we did not send

Hi Everyone, one of our users keeps getting undeliverable email messages. It looks like someone out there is sending mail and making it look like it is coming from him. Is there anyway to stop this? We are running Exchange 2007. I don't think it is relaying or a virus. It does this even when...

View Answer   |  Jun 20 2007  4:42 PM GMT
Security, Servers, Microsoft Windows
asked by fuddstud

  0 pts.

Exchange Server / Email Proxy / Network Design / General Questions

I'm not sure if I should try to tackle all my questions in one post, but I will attempt to be as clear and accurate as possible. Most likely my questions are simple for a person with experience. Overall Goal: Implement Exchange Server 2007 and Barracuda Spam Filter. Our current email and...

View Answer   |  Jun 6 2007  12:02 AM GMT
Networking, Security, Servers
asked by skepticals

  0 pts.

SMTP Queue's backup with Spam - Help save my boss's (IT Manager) butt

We got these new Cingular 8525 phones and in trying to enable them to send and receive email on our Exchange 2000 Server he opened the relay now the Queue's are filling faster then he can empty them. The open relay is turned off now, but the Spam is still filling the queues. Many are form a .tw...

View Answer   |  Jun 3 2007  2:10 PM GMT
Exchange security, Spam, Exchange
asked by GigZirb

  0 pts.

Exchange 2k3 and AD Communication failure

Dear All, I have the following setup all running on Dell PE 1950 servers AD : Win2k3 Standard ( DC, DNS, DHCP ) IP - 10.10.1.6 EMAIL : Exchange 2003 -standard IP - 10.10.1.4 the link below explains exactly the errors I get http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322837 Event Category: (3) Event ID:...

View Answer   |  Apr 24 2007  10:18 AM GMT
Active Directory, Exchange security, Spam
asked by amehsys

  0 pts.

Spam in "messages pending submission"

emails are being stuck in the "messages pending submission" queue and the clients are getting emails 2-3 hours after they are sent. after looking in the queues, i found that there are a lot of spam emails that are supposedly going to invalid email accounts. i have sophos and puremessage installed...

View Answer   |  Mar 28 2007  11:50 AM GMT
Exchange security, Spam, Exchange
asked by newexchangeadmin

  0 pts.

Email Delivery Errors

Hello All, Someone is having problems sending emails to us which did not exist before. Our email server (Unix based) did not list his domain as spam according to our email technician. Also for troubleshooting purposes i've asked him to send to my hotmail account which resulted in the same manor...

View Answer   |  Jan 27 2007  4:47 AM GMT
Security, Current threats, Viruses
asked by maryam82

  100 pts.

Find ISP that does not have port 25 blocked or another SMTP server for own DNS?

I need to either find an ISP that does not have port 25 blocked or an SMTP mail server in Southern California that allows you to use your own DNS. Earthlink is a pain !Any ideas ? Please advise. Thanks. Best Regards, syscameleon888

View Answer   |  Jan 23 2007  7:07 PM GMT
Network security, Firewalls, Intrusion management
asked by syscameleon888

  0 pts.

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