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simple SMTP log viewer for IIS

I'm using Windows 2003's IIS instance as a SMTP relay to my frontend Exchange server. I did this to have a dedicated Windows instance for my AV/Spam filtering system. Ever since moving to this I've been forced to use IIS logging for SMTP transmissions which is horrible. I'm looking for a free or inexpensive simple SMTP log reader/parser to give me a easy to use GUI and one that will transform the various SMTP codes into simple descriptions. I've seen hosting providers will web based interfaces that do this.. I just need my own...

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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

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arnold

What information are you looking to derive from the log? is this a continuous or this is when you need to determine what causes a problem?

awstats is another
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_setup.html

gopher_49

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I used GFI's MaxMail interface (hosted AV/Spam filtering) and it has descriptive messages for the status of the messages.. Like it it's retrying or if the mailbox couldn't be found, etc.. The ES-Insight seems way better what I have now.. I'll install it and check it out..

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

Yes, we use GFI, and hence why we use ES-Insight....

gopher_49

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I like ES-Insight. Anything red shows an error of some sort and sure enough I saw an email I had a concern about.. It was missing SMTP commands.. This allowed me to instantly track down issues... I'll use this for now.. We plan to move to GFI hosted filtering next year.. I guess I could use this in conjunction with searching communication issues between their server and ours...

Thanks!