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.
/Jonas
[quoted text, click to view] "Jeff Cochran" wrote:
> 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 each
> >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
[quoted text, click to view] "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.
[quoted text, click to view] > /Jonas
>
> "Jeff Cochran" wrote:
>
>> 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
>> >each
>> >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
>>
