Mother-#$^%ing #$^$-eating son of a &*#4@....

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

I am currently cleaning up a Sexchange 2003 server that was left as an open relay by the moron that installed it.

12 GB boot volume filled. To the last byte. Everything crashed. (and why the hell was exchange installed on the boot volume?)

900MB/day log files. 12000 messages in the SMTP queue when I froze it.

Amazingly enough I'm posting from the sever, so apparently that's not ENOUGH spamming for Verizon to shut down a DSL line.

I'd like to kill the goddammed idiot that set this thing up.

Comments

[autumngrrl.livejournal.com]

Erm. Kinda shocked here. I thought 2003 was closed for relay by default.

Guess not.

[tsutton.livejournal.com]

It is closed by default on Exchange 2003. So the idiot must have enabled it.

[autumngrrl.livejournal.com]

Oh well THAT'S flipping brilliant.

It's disabled by default in Ex2003...

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

....But the Small Business Server setup wizard creates a useless SMTP connector that has relaying enabled.

21:00 hours..I got here at 15:30

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

lovely.. bounce messages from this server to nonexistant domains, saying it couldn't deliver this crap...

only 40,000 more bounce messages to remove from the queue... and doing that under Exchange is not logical to say the least.

Did I mention they had a perfectly good firewall sitting in the closet? no need for that when you can stick an extra NIC in the server and plug the DSL right in.

Oh, yeah, and I learned the monkey that set this thing up (cause he was cheaper than us!) got hired as an IT director somewhere. I pity the fools.

[xdownfornowx.livejournal.com]

thats awesome. completely awesome. That douche is setting up servers and i'm stuck here tethered to a cube to explain to some girl what an invalid system disk is. kill me.

[tat2ddeviant.livejournal.com]

"Please remove disk and beat repeatedly about head and neck area"

I've always wanted to say that...

Euw

[lordstorm.livejournal.com]

They're relying on Exchange 7: 'nuff said!

Man, I remember the daye admin'ing an old Exchange Server 5.5 SP3 mail system. It was so much easier those days....well, before Exchange 6 and WinNT5's ADS. :/