That is true, and that is what I am planning to do.
Maybe I fail to explain myself, but I am more interested in where and how I
can make this filter. Exactly how the filter should get triggered is for me
to figure out, by looking at the log file. But I am rather clueless as to how
to stop the mails form being sent after my filter is triggered.
Right now Im thinking that a scheduled job that read the log every 5 minutes
is the way to go, but as I wrote below, this is all very new to me, so there
might be a better and cleaner way to do it.
I know the
"Rob Campbell" wrote:
> First thing to do is find and example of a log entry of a connection to
> hotmail that resulted in a 421. Once you have that you can start writing
> your filter.
>
> "SuneR" wrote:
>
> > We are in the process of getting a good mail reputation with hotmail.com, and
> > hotmail.com wants us to stop sending them mail if they send us a 421 smtp
> > code. That means we reached the limit, and that we should stop further
> > sending to avoid getting a negative rep for that delivery.
> >
> > I am already looking into a solution with rules on an Exchange 2007 Edge
> > Transport server, but so far no luck. But because I figure that no matter
> > what, Powershell is a good approach to stop the mails from being sent to
> > hotmail, that is why I ask here.
> >
> > What I have in mind is something like this:
> >
> > Make a powershell script that parses the logfile at intervals, and if it
> > finds an smtp code 421 from hotmail, it will simply stop the smtp service on
> > the server, I know that this means that mail to all other domains will be
> > stopped also, but stopping mail to hotmail is top priority in this process,
> > so a solution where the script stops the outgoing queue or enables a filter
> > to stop outgoing mail to hotmail would be better but I dont know if thats
> > easier/possible.
> >
> > However, I am not skilled enough to make this script without help - and I
> > dont even know if this is a usable solution. So if anyone can give me some
> > tips, a script that can do some or all of what I am looking for I would be
> > very grateful!
> >
> > I know this is not an Exchange forum, but if someone knows about Exchange
> > and knows of a better way to solve this, I am also very interested in
> > learning more about it.