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Need to determine daily mailflow from our Exchange servers.

I need to determine how much mail is sent externally from our mail server, and how much mail from the outside world is incoming on a daily basis in the form of a byte count. We have two exchange servers, one is Exchange 2K and the other is Exchange 2K7. Please advise. Many thanks.

Sembee

Message tracking will give you the raw information.
You will then need something to process the logs.
Quest Message Stats is far and away the best, but it is rather expensive.
You could also look at Promodag, Mail Detective or if you have Access skills do your own thing. Promodag have a tool to do the conversion for you: http://www.promodag.com/products/storelog/description.aspx

Simon.

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Sembee

I think you mean MTL-Analyzer ?
It is a bit basic, and trying to get it out MS Support can be difficult.

Simon.

Neiphin

Simon,
I mean "MTLedit". I used it yesterday to do some analysis on my Trackinglogs. I have never used MTL-Analyzer.

MTLedit may be a more recent update to MTL-Analyzer or a completely new program. Not sure.
I received it from MS Support earlier this month as I had concerns about my transactions logs and need to examine the tracking logs for heavy email users.

regards

Sembee

Must be something new. I have asked someone who will know. Perhaps it is an Exchange 2007 version.

Simon.

Neiphin

Maybe it is designed for 2007, but it works perfectly with E2K3. I received it because we have partnership agreement with MS. Not sure how difficult it is for non partners to obtain it.

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