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IS-IT--Management
Mar 18, 2002
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When mail is coming into my exchange server and is addressed to more than 1 person in my company and 1 person not in my company the exchange server delivers the copy to the address that it knows, but then becuase it does not reconise the other address (different company) if drops it into badmail.

Is there anyway of stopping this

Thanks

Lee
 
It should only be putting email into your \badmail folder when they're addressed to your domain (@yourcompany.com) but with a bad email address. Are you saying that you're getting emails put into your \badmail folder that are addressed to a completely different company? That mail should never be routed to your server in the first place.
 
Say an email is address to me@mydoamin.com and CC you@yourdomain.com.

The server will drop my copy into my mailbox but will then try and deliver you@yourdoamin.com, becuase it does not know you@yourdomain.com it gets sent ot badmail.

It trys to process every email address that the mail is sent to.
 
Also I am worried that it might be sending NDR to the other address on the list
 
And these messages are coming from outside your Exchange server? Not from users inside the company?
 
Yeah from outside.
Say you were to send an email to me and someone else not on my server.
I would get it, the otehr person would get it thru their server but my server would also try and deliver it to the other address and fail.

I know it is not very clear
 
No, it's clear, it just makes absolutely no sense to me. Your server should never even see the mail destined to another company. Have you checked to make sure you're not an open relay?

I just can't think of why your server would even receive mail destined for elsewhere unless someone was trying to relay through your server.
 
No u misunderstand
The mail is for users on my server, but it is also for other people not on my server.

The mail should be coming to my server. but after it delivers it to the user, it then looks at the other address on the mail and can not deliver them because they dont exisit in my domain.
 
The actual mail destined for the other domain should never be routed through your server in the first place.

If I send an email to five different people at five different companies, my mail server will send five different emails. It won't send an email to the first person, then expect that persons mail server to route it to the next, and so on and so forth. Your mail server won't deliver the message to the other company because your company isn't the source of the message, that's mail relaying, which spammers love, and ISP's hate. If your mail server were to relay that message, then your server would be targeted for use by spammers, and soon you'd find that other servers would stop accepting email messages from you.
 
I understand all that.
I dont think I am putting it across properly.
Let me think how to rephrase it.
 
Your Virtual SMTP server can forward unrecognized addresses to another server you specify. Or you could make mail enabled users for the other domain your are recieving mail for.
 
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