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Is there a way to test to see if 2003 Exchange is relaying?

Hi all,  I really thought I had my server setup properly, but in the past week or so something has slowed it down.  I just recently installed Symantec's Anti-Spam product, but other than that I can't think of much that has changed.  

I am running 2003 Server with Exchange 2003.  We are small (less than 20 mailboxes), but just this week I started getting Symantec Email Proxy messages stating that "Your email message to skjeheb@anydomin.com with the subject of Deleivery Status Notification (Failure) was unable to send because the connection to your mail server was interrupted..."  Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

Well, we are not sending anything to this address.  THere are some outgoing messages sitting in the queue but not many.  I'm just wondering if something has somehow hijacked my email server and is forwarding messages.  I'm not sure how to check.

The server must be booted at least once a day or it runs at a snails pace.  It may not even have anything to do with mail, but this is the first place I am looking (besides checking for viruses).

Any help would be greatly apprecitated.  Thanks in advance
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I have plenty of hard disk space and the server has 2 gig of ram.  When I look at task manager it says the CPU usage is less than 30% and the PF usage is 1.85 GB. (Isn't that a bit high?)  I do have over 100 processes running.

And in regard to the message header, I do not see it either, all I am seeing are the popup boxes from Symantec.

k, off to check out your other suggestions.
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I following the first link above and made sure everything looked good.  The only exceptions I had was that I had on the "Only List below" two internal ip addresses in order for two other machines to access Pop3.  I took these out just for the heck of it to test.  But, everything else is set the same as suggested.

I ran NAV and it returned with no viruses.  I am stuck with Norton software, no way around that at the moment.

This may be a stupid question, but how do I check the bandwidth that the email server is using?  

Oh, one more thing, everthing goes through a Sonic Wall before it hits the network.  Today I disconnected the server and noticed that the traffic on the Sonic Wall (via the lights) did not decrease one bit.

Any other suggestions?
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