Mail Server auto resending emails

We have a mail server running 10.8.5. We have run into the following issue, if someone sends out a mass email (multiple recipients or a group)... It starts to auto-resend that message. Every once in a while it will have a pattern of resending every 70minutes exactly. Other times it's chaotic on its resend and there is no pattern (like yesterday, it sent 3 times. First resend was 10min later and then 3hrs 03min later). We have restarted the mail server but that doesn't solve the issue. The only way we have found to solve the issue is to nuke the user from the mail server and recreate their account. Obviously, this is not the ideal solution so we were wondering if anyone out there has had this same issue and has a workaround or even a fix for it. Any help will be appreciated.

Hi,
setting up mail can is quite complicated.
Suggest you watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAODxn7LF6k&list=PL01BB6048468891F7&feature=share &index=16
this should give you some ideas where to look.
Have in mind that you need to do DNS set-ups, need to have a static IP address ( or use a DynDNS service ),very likely also add MX records etc. etc.

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Mark,
When Forwarding an Email as an Attachment do this simple step before forwarding:
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1. Hit CMD-SHIFT-H to reveal the header information,
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Good day, I would like to know where I can find the logs in Exchange that I can check or see if our mail server accepted the emails from a certain domain. The problem is we can receive emails
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Go http://happymac.info/node/10

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I presume you are looking to migrate emails currently stored on a mail server to your new proposed Mac mini mail server.
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