100,000 Spam Mails

[paulcap]

I have installed SBS-2000 including Exchange 2000. It has a broadband connection with no store and forward facilities running at the ISP. Apart from the revese DNS lookup feature, it appears that all the anti-spam settings that stop the spam also stop the legitimate emails. How should it be done, or do I need to change to an ISP that does provide store-and-forward services?

After one day live, the system had about 4000 queues with over 100,000 emails, one queue had 27,000 messages. I need to find an answer quickly.

Paul

 

[tom11011]

Sounds like you are running an open relay. This question get's asked once a week so just do a search to shut it off before you get blacklisted.

 

[Xybertron]

Put it all back to the way it was. Spam is turned off by default. Dan
Microsoft Exchange Support @ Microsoft

 

[paulcap]

That's how it was when it was hit. Unless someone tampered with it - too many people have the admin password.

It was OK, according to ordb, just a few days earlier. Can a virus or other form of attack open it up or use it even though it isn't open?

Paul