log email source   

Is there some way to log emails sent to exchange 2003, which shows where it 
collected the mail from?

Issue is we have spam emails being received on some addresses. i dont know 
if they are being received because the spam is being sent to their primary mx 
record / primary email server, or if it is being sent to the secondary MX 
record, which points to the exchange server.

The exchange server collects all the mail, and both servers have the same 
email names and domain listed, eg, if i send emails to myname@mydomain.com 
that can be passed onto the correct email address from either server, but 
external email servers should be sending it to the primary MX record, which 
points to an external server that is designed to filter spam, then pass it to 
the internal exchange email server.

This is keeping the internal traffic internal, while providing resource 
hungry spam filtering on a second server, which is offsite (which also 
provides a redundancy email server.)

i just need some way to log whats coming from where, from the exchange 
servers point of view, so i can see for example if spam servers are sending 
it through our primary server, which is missing the spam filtering, or if 
they are bypassing that and sending it directly to the secondary exchange 
server.

date: Thu, 8 May 2008 17:10:08 -0700   author:   Nick

Re: log email source   

Hi, I'm a little unclear about what you are asking, but from what i gather, 
message tracking should allow to see which Exchange server the messages are 
coming in on.

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Chad Mosman
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"Nick"  wrote in message 
news:D117A8BF-2E9A-41CD-8747-A78CA38547D1@microsoft.com...
> Is there some way to log emails sent to exchange 2003, which shows where 
> it
> collected the mail from?
>
> Issue is we have spam emails being received on some addresses. i dont know
> if they are being received because the spam is being sent to their primary 
> mx
> record / primary email server, or if it is being sent to the secondary MX
> record, which points to the exchange server.
>
> The exchange server collects all the mail, and both servers have the same
> email names and domain listed, eg, if i send emails to myname@mydomain.com
> that can be passed onto the correct email address from either server, but
> external email servers should be sending it to the primary MX record, 
> which
> points to an external server that is designed to filter spam, then pass it 
> to
> the internal exchange email server.
>
> This is keeping the internal traffic internal, while providing resource
> hungry spam filtering on a second server, which is offsite (which also
> provides a redundancy email server.)
>
> i just need some way to log whats coming from where, from the exchange
> servers point of view, so i can see for example if spam servers are 
> sending
> it through our primary server, which is missing the spam filtering, or if
> they are bypassing that and sending it directly to the secondary exchange
> server.

date: Thu, 8 May 2008 20:47:49 -0400   author:   Chad Mosman [M3 Postmasters]