Re: RE: [NTSEC] Exchange internal email spam

[dmonjar () orgtek com (Daniel Monjar)]

"T.P. O'Halloran" wrote:
> Spam certainly does throttle the network down, however...Exchange is a
> single instance database...   100,000 people may have gotten the email, but
> there's only one copy of it stored on the server.  Granted, there would be
> another 30 copies of the mail where people 'reply'd to'.... but I think
> you'll find the several terrabytes thing waaaaay off base.
>
> T.P. O'Halloran
> Manager, UCSF Stanford Server Team
> Desk  415.353.4623

I don't think this is correct... Exchange is a single instance database
for a message originated inside Exchange and going to multiple Exchange
recipients.  But if you have 100,000 messages coming in via SMTP to
Exchange I think you'll get 100,000 messages in the database.

-- 
Daniel Monjar
Organon Teknika
Durham, NC US