It’s often required to track the message flow in your Exchange environment. Of ourse, Exchange has it’s web-based GUI to track messages but it’s limited in function.
You should use PowerShell to analyze mailflow in a detailed level.
Output table formated. First, transport servers are selected. The result is piped into the main query phrase and filtered mathching the E-Mail subject.
Get-TransportServer | Get-messagetrackinglog -Sender “USER@DOMAIN.COM” -Start “01/15/2012 11:15:00” -End “01/15/2012 14:25:00” | Where {$_.MessageSubject -like “*Exchange*”} | ft EventId,Source,Sender,MessageSubject,Recipients -autosize
You could this output more detailed list-formated.
Get-TransportServer | Get-messagetrackinglog -Sender “USER@DOMAIN.COM” -Start “01/15/2012 11:15:00” -End “01/15/2012 14:25:00” | Where {$_.MessageSubject -like “*Exchange*”} | fl
Filter for empty subject.
Get-TransportServer | Get-messagetrackinglog -Sender “USER@DOMAIN.COM” -Start “01/15/2012 11:15:00” -End “01/15/2012 14:25:00” | Where {$_.MessageSubject -like “”} | fl
Filtering messagelog to track mails sent to a special domain.
Get-TransportServer | Get-MessageTrackingLog -Start “01/15/2012 12:00am” -ResultSize Unlimited | Where {$_.Recipients -match “googlemail.com”}
Cheers,
Chris
