SMTP error

Well i tried to fix this by using postinis outgoing server and I have now gotten myself into more trouble.  What do I need to do to have RDNS work correctly?

Yes, I read that and I think i still do not fully understand.

I downloaded the best practices tool and fixed most of my errors.  I seem to still get an open relay error though and I read many papers on this telling me to only approve users in my relay yet I still get that the open relay test failed.

I am not recieving mail just fine, but I am not sending mail at all.  I am constanly getting NDR errors in my event log.  With event ID 3030 or 3018.  I have taken my server off of the smart host.  Mainly because I am suddenly getting alot of spammers sending off the server.  This is a problem that occured after the Relay sytem was altered for the smart host.  I though doing a smart host would fix all of this.  The funny thing is that the mxtoolbox seems to be working fine for me.  I set the PTR record to point directly to my server.  

What am I setting up wrong?

so you are an open releay?
what was the outcome when you tried to test your RDNS and if you where an open relay at mxtoolbox?

Well  I thought I closed off the relay and said only user on my network could connect.  However my queque shows 3500 messages.  Most have extermely odd ipaddresses.  Not sure what is going on there. I thought the relay is closed.

MXtoolbox comes back saying OK, however it is going to postini.  Not my actual server.

is there any tool i can use to see if my server was under attack, or what I have left open to vulnerability?

The exchange server sits behind a firewall.  

I undid the postini changes since as soon has I had set them up, the server started going haywire with SMTP requests.  I can't get rid of people trying to send out messages through the server.  I tried the spam cleanup document and everything checks out as if nothing is under attack, accept my Hard drive has quickly been decreasing in size.  I have 14,000 messages waiting to be sent that will not seem to delete from the queue.  

I am a bit confussed as to why the queues will not clean up

have you scanned the server for viruses?

I finally got everything cleared off.  

Yes we use trendmicro and we are coming back clean for viruses.  I did find some Spyware.

The Hard drive issue seems to be undercontrol too now.

Now that is all cleared up, now I got to figure out a way to get e-mail out.  We still can't seem to send e-mail out correctly.

Should I try to setup Postini again?  Or is there another meathod I should use?

is the exchange server sending and receving mail direct from the internet now? nd not using postini?

Well I have incoming mail going through postini.  I just can not send out.  I know I need to do some fix some setting.  Just not sure what.

check your smtp connector with the * in the address space tab.
can you advise where this is pointing to? is it configured to send through postini as a smart host using the IP address?

all ok now?

Yes.  Once the fake senders were blocked from using the server and messages were cleared.  I set up under SMTP connections to only allow connections to postini servers.  Then instead of using the virtual host I started using Postini DNS.  So I set up delivery with a different DNS address.  Mail seems to be flowing good now.  I had a couple of kick backs but nothing I am worrying about yet.  Thanks for your help.