How many messages per month???

[Brian]

I am running Exchange 5.5 SP4, Outlook 2000 on desktop. Does anyone know how I can find out how many messages are sent to one of my mailboxes per month. I have an email account in which the supervisor would like to know how many messages are delieverd to the mailbox per month. I would like to create a form so that the user can view the info themseleves rather than ask me to do it.

Thanks

[Timothy H. Schilbach]

Hi Brian,

All you need to do is enabled message tracking and let these logs be retained for 30 days or more. You can then go into the MS Exchange Management Console and then select MESSAGE TRACKING from the TOOLS menu. Select the mailbox you wish to track and select 30 for the days value. You will get all the email this user has sent or recieved to his mailbox for a period of 30 days.

Another way to do this if your looking at automating it from an Outlook form, would be simply point your outlook form at the directory and user the FileSystemObject to parse through each log file (there will be one for each day). This process will take a while on the user desktop over the network esepecially if you have a large environment.

Timothy H. Schilbach
Sr. Messaging Administrator
Snap-on Incorporated
262-656-6184



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Brian at 3/25/2002 2:51:20 PM

I am running Exchange 5.5 SP4, Outlook 2000 on desktop. Does anyone know how I can find out how many messages are sent to one of my mailboxes per month. I have an email account in which the supervisor would like to know how many messages are delieverd to the mailbox per month. I would like to create a form so that the user can view the info themseleves rather than ask me to do it.

Thanks