[jazzdrive]

[jazzdrive]

Please does anyone know what I could do to stop this? I've stopped the Exchange services from running, but how will I solve this problem when we make the switch?

Also, The mailbox store database is be getting larger even though, like I said, no one is using it and there are no mailboxes configured.


Thanks for any help you can give.

[yakkob]

To help you out with the deletion of log files just add this batch script to run every 1/2 hour as a scheduled task:

erase "c:\Program Files\Exhchange\MDBDATA\E0000*.log"

So you can at least concentrate on the other problem.

HTH

[yakkob]

Ignore the above.

Do NOT set upthe batch script.

Refer to your other post with answers by Clutch, Dosfreak, apk.

Link courtesy of Dosfreak http://weblogs.asp.net/exchange/archive/2004/05/12/130556.aspx

[peterh]

It sounds like your Email server is being Spammed, you need to configure SMTP for your domain and disable Anonymous login for the SMTP Virtual servers.

See http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/SMTP_Virtual_Server_Uncovered.html

[jazzdrive]

Yeah, I tried to disable anonymous access wherever I could, but they still kept coming. I don't know what I was doing wrong.

[jazzdrive]

Okay, I finally got the spamming to stop. However, the badmail folder is continuing to fill up. Any ideas on what it could be?

[Merlin_666]

Your Exchange server is most probably being used as relay server.
Check your firewall or router settings and see what open ports you have and to where they redirect.Also check as your server is not exposed as a DMZ.

[GTwannabe]

Badmail will continue to fill up; Microsoft doesn't provide a way to automatically delete it.

Here's a batch file I made for my Exchange server at work:

del "C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\Mailroot\vsi 1\BadMail\*.*" /Q

Put that in a .bat file and schedule it to run early in the morning every day and you'll be fine.