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Some from outside was able to send an email to all my email recipients. How? He sent it to mydomain@mydomain.com.  I notice that whenever you create a distribution list in Exchange (Global Address List), an SMTP address is created. Basically, if someone send an email to that address, it'll be sent to all recipient in that list.

1) Is this by default in Exchange 5.5 ?
2) This is certainly a security issue. Why didn't spammers use it before?
3) Can I safely remove all email addresses (SMTP, CCMAIL, X400) from that list?

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Good that answers my questions!

I did protect my mail server a way ago against relay.  But there is still one thing that is odd. I see about a 100 messages a day in "Outbound messages awaiting delivering" with "<>" as the originator and strange unknown address as recipient.  I was told that this is normal.  
I still feel that those message shouldn't be the the Queue.
Oups...one problem, now I can't send to that list anymore after removing all info in email addresses (SMTP, CCMAIL, X400).
I tried to recreate the SMTP address but it doesn't work.

I don't want to have to recreate the list!
That's odd ... Re-add the X400 address only and retry to send to that list again.

The CCMAIL and SMTP address should only be relevent if they have a use, i.e. if someone was sending to that email address with that type of system.