Exchange Email report

[newtoitall]

Looking for a light weight solution for me to be able to search my exchange 2003 to produce reports like

show me all emails from *@hotmail.com

I have tried using the message tracking centre, but I cannot get wildcard to work in the sender field.

Also, FYG , I don’t think SMTP logging is enabled on my exchange

Anyone have any experience with this scenario?

Had a quick look MessageStats , but looks complicated to install

Thanks

 

[ntinlin]

MessageStats isn't that complicated really. You can have it installed and gathering data within about 30 minutes.

Ain't cheap though since its priced on a per mailbox basis.

Promodag is pretty good and priced on a per server basis but it is a bit harder to use than MessageStats. Not as pretty to look at and hard to set up automated reports for non-admins to look at. MessageStats they can basically be allowed to run their own queries, Promodag you have to do it for them.

Neill

 

[xmsre]

You know, the message tracking logs are text files, tab delimited text files. Each column is a field. You could:

1. Use a tool like grep or even the dos commands (for and find) in a batch file.
2. Import them into excel and use excel search functions
3. Use the logparser utility.

 

[newtoitall]

Please can you advise where the tracking logs are stored?

Thanks

 

[ntinlin]

If you have set them up they are in the \\servername\servername.log share.

That's the easiest way to get to them from another system.

Neill