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coch

coch

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What is the best way to monitor the amount of emails being sent internally and externally on Exchange 2000 server?
Can mail arriving from an external source be monitored and if so how

What I would like to achieve is a breakdown of the amount of mail being sent
 
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that is where logging comes in, turn it on and count ...

monitoring mail is another matter, it possibly violates privacy laws

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Ok, so which of the exchnage services would a set to log if I wanted to measure the amount of traffic internally and externally?
Would it just be the smtp protocol log? Will that then allow me to look at the file location of the log files and each ****.log is equal to a single message?

Thanks in advance for your help
 
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Depends WHAT you log of course.
But you will not get a log for every message, that could hurt!

But what do you want to achieve anyway?
Counting the number of emails is not going to tell you anything you know.

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Well the director wants to know how much mail is being sent internally and externally, so I thought that the log process was the best way as I didn't want to turn on the message tracking because I thought that this would take up more disc space as opposed to the protocol log

Am I wrong? What would be the best way?
 
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how much, as in "how many messages" and/or "how many bytes"


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primarily how many messages but if can get both that would be a serious result. This is not going to be a fixture running constantly this is just somethiing he wants doing say every 3 months or so so that a trend can be measured
 
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you better not run that constantly! you'll need a lot of space.
You can use FUll logging, and tracing. Run it for about 4 hours and see what info it gives you and if it is what he wants.

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If you are using GFi Mail Essentials, you can do how many and how big using their logs / reporting but this does not cover internal emails.

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