How can I see real time smtp logs on Exchange 2010

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_{Saturday, January 15, 2011 6:33 PM}

How/where can I see real time smtp logs on Exchange 2010?

Thankyou in advance.

Fabio Martins MCDST/MCSA

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_{Saturday, January 15, 2011 6:54 PM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

SMTP logging is diabled by default. You can read about it and hot to enable it at these links.

Understanding Protocol Logging: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997624.aspx

Configuring Protocol Logging: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124531.aspx

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_{Saturday, January 15, 2011 8:05 PM ✅Answered | 3 votes}

Thankyou Brian.

That was exactly what i was looking for.

Set-ReceiveConnector "My Receive Connector Name" -ProtocolLoggingLevel Verbose

Set-SendConnector "My Send Connector Name" -ProtocolLoggingLevel Verbose

And could see the logs on

 C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\TransportRoles\Logs\ProtocolLog

Fabio Martins MCDST/MCSA

_{Wednesday, September 7, 2011 7:06 PM}

Wait, what about those of us who use Client Access Arrays?  The services are all clustered.  Does one have to examine all the members of the array that use the Hub Transport role?

_{Wednesday, September 7, 2011 8:04 PM}

You'll need to examine  the logs of all of the hub transport servers that could potentially be receiving the emails you want to check the log entries for. 

Doesn't really matter if you're clustered or not. For receive connectors you could be implementing load balancing / fault tolerance in MX without doing any clustering at all.

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