Questions On SMTP Logging For Exchange2003

[zoeythecat]

Hi All,

I wanted to be able to monitor mail flow internally for troubleshooting purposes. I believe the only way for me to do this would be to turn on SMTP logging which I assume will allow me to monitor mail flow internally. Is this something I should turn on permanently or temporary? I'm reading articles that note if you do not turn this off, then performance will degrade rapidly. I'm curious how everyone else handles their environment in this regard? Could you give me some best practice feed back on this?

Thanks,
Zoey

 

[ntinlin]

What are you trying to achieve with the monitoring?

How long messages take to go from one server to another? Who is talking to whom?

Neill

 

[zoeythecat]

Neill,

Thanks for replying. I should have updated this post. What I needed to do was turn on "Message Tracking" not "SMTP Logging". We just wanted to have the ability to track messages internally.

Sorry for not replying back sooner.

Regards,
Zoey