[pstacks]

Hi All,

does any one know how to have exchange 2000 reject mail if the user is not in active directory. Getting a lot of mail from dictionary spammers with any name attached to my domain.

Thanks in advance

Pressley

[topper]

Not quite sure what actual problems you are having.

Email not addressed to someone will not get sent to them!! any email without a valid recipient (i.e. a user in AD) get's thrown to the postmaster. If you want to stop this then just don't setup a postmaster address, unless you are using a POP3 connector and throwing all mail into one inbox, in which case; you could put an anti-spam\virus filter in place, like messagelabs or CA secure content manager.

topper.

[pstacks]

Thanks topper,

I was getting a bunch of spam directed at users which didn't have an AD account. Didn't realize I had set up the admin account as postmaster and thus mails were getting sent my way. I removed the postmaster account from admin properties so that should do it.

Like your quote.

Pressley

[tonyyeb]

You should still have a postmaster account setup though so people can e-mail your company with issues they may have with your e-mail server or users.