SMTP critical Queue Growth

[Nyx57]

I have my monitors for my 2003 small business server exchange 2003 server to alert me when the smtp queue growth is more than 10-20(minutes?) and these values when i analyse them are reading up in the thousands. No performance or issues have been reported from my users. i think the problem is accociated with another issue im having which ill try and describe:

In the exchange manager i had four exchange servers, two of which are real and operating. the other two were created when i built a server and failed to remove/uninstall them from the computer before i reformatted, so i guess they stayed in the setting some where. anyhow i figured out how to delete those 2 servers from the exchange manager. but as before they are still appearing in my main exchange servers queue and i guess its trying to contact those servers, but they are absent from the exchange manager. how do i get rid of those servers from being queued or messages trying to be sent to them from my real server? because i keep having to freeze those connections and with this strange issue i cannot properly diagnose my smtp queue growth problem, if anyone could provide and help comments or feedback please let me know, i world appreciate it. thanks.

 

[fs483]

My SMTP queue grew exponentionaly recently... See my many of my previous posts... I still haven't found the perfect solution... I have disabled NDRs which seemed to have slowed the "number" of NDRs, I a few thousand per hour... Now it's down to 5 or 10 but some NDRs have been as large as 1 GB...