Exchange email problem

JamesRJ · 3 Feb 2006 at 22:32

I run an exchange server at home and today all my outgoing email is being bounced back to me. I checked the the exchange queues and discovered someone been relaying off me

I've fixed the problem ( had a setting wrong ) My question is will it be a temporary ban or permanant ?

JamesRJ · 3 Feb 2006 at 23:04

Well its not so much a bounce as a delay message :

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.

YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.

Delivery to the following recipients has been delayed.

[email protected]

Reporting-MTA: dns;server.herbsend.co.uk

Final-Recipient: rfc822;[email protected]
Action: delayed
Status: 4.4.7
Will-Retry-Until: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 21:00:05 +0000
X-Display-Name: basebox

JamesRJ · 3 Feb 2006 at 23:10

I got this then checked the queue and found 410 messages in there ! going to various spam type addresses.
I've frozen them all for now ( not sure how to delete them ) and disabled all outgoing mail.
I think I found the problem, under Server,SMTP,Default SMTP,Access,Relay,All computer which successfully authenticate to relay, regardless of list above. Box was ticked. Ive unticked this now

JamesRJ · 3 Feb 2006 at 23:50

Cheers I'll give them a try

JamesRJ · 5 Feb 2006 at 07:37

Update to problem :

My ip wasnt blocked after all, outgoing mail wouldnt send because zen had changed there dns addresses and I had updated everything else apart from exchange.
Email que has been steadily growing over the past day so I did a virus scan, found 30 virus & 1 trojan (not good) system scans clean now but more mails are appearing in the que

its up to 600 now.
So I have 2 questions firstly how do I delete those mails in the que ? I have frozen them to make sure that I can send email (which worked) but as more are appearing I have disabled outgoing email until I can sort problem. Secondly where are these mails coming from ? Ive done the relay test from http://www.abuse.net/relay.html which confirmed that it wasnt relaying emails

JamesRJ · 5 Feb 2006 at 13:40

Says file is being used by another program ?
I've stoped all exchange services running but still get the same message ? is there other services I need to stop ?