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From: Chris on 31 Mar 2010 12:00 I got lots of logs under both folders and back to 2008. Can I delete anything older than for example 3 months? Do I have to delete manually or using a script? Is there a setting in the gui to keep the logs for xx days? Thanks.
From: Rich Matheisen [MVP] on 31 Mar 2010 13:42 On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:00:01 -0700, Chris <Chris(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >I got lots of logs under both folders and back to 2008. Can I delete >anything older than for example 3 months? Do I have to delete manually or >using a script? Is there a setting in the gui to keep the logs for xx days? Once the log files are created Exchange doesn't use them. You can remove (or keep) whatever you like. There's no GUI so you'll have to do it manually or write (or find) a smal script to keep them trimmed. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
From: Chris on 31 Mar 2010 17:33 Rich, can the smtp logs be used for tracking? I mean a gui to read those logs and present the result in a good format? In ESM or 3rd party? I know you can open each log in Notepad. which logs Message Tracking Center uses, the log defined under server properties? Thanks. "Rich Matheisen [MVP]" wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:00:01 -0700, Chris > <Chris(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > >I got lots of logs under both folders and back to 2008. Can I delete > >anything older than for example 3 months? Do I have to delete manually or > >using a script? Is there a setting in the gui to keep the logs for xx days? > > Once the log files are created Exchange doesn't use them. You can > remove (or keep) whatever you like. > > There's no GUI so you'll have to do it manually or write (or find) a > smal script to keep them trimmed. > --- > Rich Matheisen > MCSE+I, Exchange MVP > . >
From: Rich Matheisen [MVP] on 31 Mar 2010 21:32
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:33:01 -0700, Chris <Chris(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >Rich, > can the smtp logs be used for tracking? Tracking what? The SMTP logs are records of the interaction between the SMTP client and the SMTP server. They won't help you with knowing if/when a message was delivered to a mailbox. >I mean a gui to read those logs >and present the result in a good format? None that I know of. The Exchange 2003 (and Windows) SMTP logs make it damned near impossible to follow anything since there's nothing that identifies what session a particular row belongs to. >In ESM or 3rd party? I know you >can open each log in Notepad. .. . . or Excel, or MS Access. > which logs Message Tracking Center uses, the log defined under server >properties? Yes. The message tracking logs. And those are no good to know what the SMTP client and server said to each other. :-) --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP |