In Exchange 2003 Sp2 are the Message Tracking logs something we can examine in notepad or view outside of ESM? Second question is can I copy a message tracking log file from 7 months ago into the c:\exchsrvr\servname.log folder and be able to view it in ESM?

Yes you can examine message tracking log files. Here is some info http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821905 dont know about copy old logfile back and be able to use them. lasse at humandata dot se, http://anewmessagehasarrived.blogspot.com

Ah of course, if I had taken a closer look in explorer I would have seen these are just text files, abeit large ones....

Hi BGM2, In my opinion, we could use them. Or we could use log parser to check the log. Some information for you: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=24659 Regards! Gavin

If yo uwant stats drawn from Exchange 2003, this is probably for you http://anewmessagehasarrived.blogspot.com/2008/03/exchange-2003-statistics-with-logparser.html lasse at humandata dot se, http://anewmessagehasarrived.blogspot.com