Internal "All" Distribution List - Replied to by an outsider?!??!!?
Like most companies, we have an internal Ddistribution List on our Exchange 2003 server called "All". It includes all of our internal employees, and no one else. So.....One of our employees sent an email to this group today to schedule a company picnic. About an hour later, she got a reply from some guy who she says she does not know, and who is not an employee of our comapny. ??!!??HUH??!?!? Is this possible? How? I'm the IT Manager (and helpdesk, and Systems Admin., etc...), so I have full control over our Exchange Server. The reply wasn't so much Spam, as it was just saying "I'm really proud of that fantastic email you sent for the picnic, you must be proud of yourself".....
I'm thinking either one of our employees forwarded the email to another address and then replied as a joke, or someone someone left OWA open somewhere outside of the company or something.....
Any thoughts?
Thanks.
I'm thinking either one of our employees forwarded the email to another address and then replied as a joke, or someone someone left OWA open somewhere outside of the company or something.....
Any thoughts?
Thanks.
Yup try the headers to find out who has forwarded the mail to the external address.
This does not seem a real problem.
Unless someone replied from outside to your distribution list, that could cause some real havoc. you should only accept email from inside.
This does not seem a real problem.
Unless someone replied from outside to your distribution list, that could cause some real havoc. you should only accept email from inside.
I have seen a couple of spam messages addressed to all@xyz.com
So my distribution list is named like ~all. (or something like that ;->)
So my distribution list is named like ~all. (or something like that ;->)
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Thanks for the comments, I'll dig a little deeper today. How can I verify that I am "Only accepting email from inside" for my Distribution Lists? I'e.: I do not want external people to be able to send email to my internal DLs!!
In Active Directory User, right-click on the Distribution List, select Properties, then click on the Exchange General tab, and on that page you can restrict who can or cannot post to the list. A good start might be to "check" the box labeled "From Authenticated Users Only"
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Well, like everyone figured, the email had been forwarded to one of users boyfriend. He replied to the sender of the message instead of just his girlfriend. Thanks.
And yes, I had tracking enabled, and that's how I figured it out.
And yes, I had tracking enabled, and that's how I figured it out.
It doesn't seem like a serious problem...