Unix flavor of SMTP? lol 
 

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> Behalf Of John Strongosky
> Posted At: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 5:31 PM
> Posted To: swynk
> Conversation: IIS SMtp Logs
> Subject: RE: IIS SMtp Logs
> 
> 
> Unix flavor of smtp does why not Windows.....???? 
> 
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> Behalf Of Presley, Steven
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 3:28 PM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: IIS SMtp Logs
> 
> Ah I see.  The only problem with that is that most MTA's 
> (Exchange included) are more then happy to run multiple SMTP 
> sessions against the same host at the same time which would 
> make the feature you are looking for difficult.
> On the development side I'd guess assigning some random ID to 
> every session and making that a column in the IIS log would 
> help, but I guess that is something to send to 
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> Best regards,
> Steven
> 
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> > John Strongosky
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 6:15 PM
> > To: Exchange Discussions
> > Subject: RE: IIS SMtp Logs
> > 
> > Forgot about the "Data Blob", what I would want is just 
> what the IIS 
> > logs gives now except add a message id so you can follow the 
> > conversation.
> > 
> > john
> > 
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> > Presley, Steven
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 3:12 PM
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> > Subject: RE: IIS SMtp Logs
> > 
> > You will get the entire SMTP session except the entire DATA 
> blob.  You 
> > will see a small portion of the DATA blob, which tends to 
> be limited 
> > to the messageID in the IIS SMTP log.  I have also found it 
> useful to 
> > dump out the link state data as that can clutter things up (again, 
> > using findstr /v).
> > Consider what you are asking for though.  A typical SMTP 
> log where I 
> > work is 400mb a day (per server).  If you were to add in the entire 
> > DATA blob, that would make that log file unmanageable.  
> What are you 
> > expecting to see in the DATA blob that you could not see in 
> the client 
> > anyways?  If you are looking for the RAW MIME content then 
> use a POP3 
> > or IMAP client and you will get the message before it is "promoted"
> > into MAPI format.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Steven
> > 
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> > > John Strongosky
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 4:26 PM
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> > > Subject: RE: IIS SMtp Logs
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the reply, what I would be looking for is the
> > entire smtp
> > > conversation in order to troubleshoot a problem....
> > > 
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> > > Presley, Steven
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 1:18 PM
> > > To: Exchange Discussions
> > > Subject: RE: IIS SMtp Logs
> > > 
> > > Well it all depends on what you are looking for in the IIS
> > SMTP log,
> > > but I generally start with the following:
> > > 
> > > Separate the inbound from outbound connections:
> > > findstr /v "Outbound" iissmtplogfile.log > inbound.log findstr 
> > > "Outbound"
> > > iissmtplogfile.log > outbound.log
> > > 
> > > This should make it easier to parse, now it comes down to
> > what exactly
> > > you are looking for.  If you are looking for mail from a 
> particular 
> > > server you can parse it even more (using either the server name or
> > > IP):
> > > findstr "servername" inbound.log or findstr "servername" 
> > outbound.log
> > > 
> > > Because email sessions can occur in constant streams it can be 
> > > difficult to narrow down specifics, but generally once 
> you get the 
> > > feel for the logs and how they work you should be able to 
> find what 
> > > you are looking for.  What specifically are you looking for?
> > > 
> > > Best regards,
> > > Steven
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
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> > > > John Strongosky
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 3:46 PM
> > > > To: Exchange Discussions
> > > > Subject: IIS SMtp Logs
> > > > 
> > > >  
> > > > Looking at the IIS smtp logs and I find it very hard to
> > follow the
> > > > smtp conversation, is there any way to add a email id. 
> > I've checked
> > > > almost every check box on the IIS Logging properties 
> and its not 
> > > > there. Does anybody have a recommended log parser/viewer
> > > that they are
> > > > using for this?
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > v/r
> > > > john
> > > > 
> > > > 
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