Email logging 1

[PistolPete30]

Hi - Is there any way to log outgoing emails on an Exchange server (5.5) in order that you can get an idea of the traffic?

 

[Adminman]

PistolPete-

How much detail are you looking? I'm thinking that enabling logging would give you an idea of email volume.

Adminman

 

[Adminman]

PistolPete-

I was having trouble remembering where I enabled the message tracking. I finally remembered. In exchange administrator goto the IMS for your site. At the bottom is enable message tracking, select it, then APPLY, then OK.
This will create a folder called tracking.log within the your exchange folder. These are MMDDYY.log files. Check out this article (q173280) from MS concerning descriptions of the fields.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q173280

Good luck.

Adminman

 

[Voetsek]

why would you not just use the windows/exchange performance monitors. if you really want to get with it, you can use mrtg graphs to display your performance logs. you should be able to get all the traffic reports you want from exchange performance monitors except things like how many emails did sally send or how many emails did frank send to blueshoes.com

Hope this helps,

Molly