Hi!

After using WinNT 4 and IIS 4 for many years we finally upgraded to Win2003
and IIS 6. We discovered that the SMTP log file writes multiple rows for eac
h
mail, which in turn makes the log files grow at extreme speed. Is there
anyway we can get back to the old way of one row/mail? We send mail through 
a
smart host, if that would matter...

/Jonas

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On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 03:47:01 -0700, "JBerling"
<JBerling@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>After using WinNT 4 and IIS 4 for many years we finally upgraded to Win2003
>and IIS 6. We discovered that the SMTP log file writes multiple rows for ea
ch
>mail, which in turn makes the log files grow at extreme speed. Is there
>anyway we can get back to the old way of one row/mail? We send mail through
 a
>smart host, if that would matter...

The SMTP log writes one row for each SMTP event.  Plus, it's a text
file, so having ten rows combined to one row is still the same number
of characters anyway.

Jeff

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Well, yesterday was the first working day the upgraded system was running in
production. For the last 5 years the size of the SMTP log file has been abou
t
500 kb/day and yesterday, which was a day of rather low mailing frequency,
the file suddenly grew to 2.5 Mb. So it definitiely logs a lot more now than
before using the same config...

I guess we have to build a parser that can extract the important stuff from
the log file and then delete or move the original file on a daily basis.

/Jonas

"Jeff Cochran" wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 03:47:01 -0700, "JBerling"
> <JBerling@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> 
>
> The SMTP log writes one row for each SMTP event.  Plus, it's a text
> file, so having ten rows combined to one row is still the same number
> of characters anyway.
>
> Jeff
>

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"JBerling" <JBerling@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F47FC697-A794-4670-AAAD-BC9848C947CB@microsoft.com...
> Well, yesterday was the first working day the upgraded system was running
> in
> production. For the last 5 years the size of the SMTP log file has been
> about
> 500 kb/day and yesterday, which was a day of rather low mailing frequency,
> the file suddenly grew to 2.5 Mb. So it definitiely logs a lot more now
> than
> before using the same config...
>
> I guess we have to build a parser that can extract the important stuff
> from
> the log file and then delete or move the original file on a daily basis.
>

On the General tab of the SMTP Properties you can specify what file format
and what items are recorded in the log file.
[vbcol=seagreen]
> /Jonas
>
> "Jeff Cochran" wrote:
> 

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