Re: Reading Exchange Server Databases

From: Al Christoph (ac2_at_too.net)
Date: 11/10/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:30:16 -0500

Merv, Thanks for the reply. You wrote: 'I suspect they were bounced back to
the "postmaster" at your domain
(generally this is the Administrator account).'

Now for more than you want to know:-)))

They were in fact fired back and I got them in Outlook because I have the
admin account as my Outlook email account and get both stuff from the system
and stuff from a POP3 connecter (my very first email address, still in use)
there. (I use OE for my regular email for obscure reasons.)

Tried your suggestion. OWA shows NOTHING in the inbox for the administrator.
(Read or Unread!)

The problem in Outlook is that the associated icons are strange.
1) There is a paper clip indicating an attachment, but with the way Outlook
seems to work, I can't see it as a separate attachment. If I could I might
be a happy camper.

2) The icon in the type column is not an envelope but a red curving arrow on
the left and a set of wavy lines on the right that look like an old style
postmark. A search on help did not give a key to the icons. (Lots of
companys starting with MS need to hire me to advise them on what is really
needed in a help file:-)))) Interestingly the icon icon (yep that's what
it's called) doesn't show up in the dialog that allows you to mange the
columns so I can't change it to text!

3) When I go the View menu and look for options, it is not present so there
is no way I can read the headers that way. (That technique works with the
regular envelope type icon.)

Here is what I do see in Outlook:
Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
Subject: System Up Time Alert on AC2M6
Sent: 10/30/04 6:10 PM
The following recipient(s) could not be reached:
ac2@t???.net on 10/30/04 6:10 PM
There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient's email server.
Please contact your system administrator.
<3bears.biz #5.5.0 smtp;554 ac2@???.net>: Relay access denied

What I want is the message that bounced so that I can forward it and
especially its headers to ???.net (my web / email hosting company) and get
them to tell me what I need to do to get them to accept alerts from the
server.

So my question remains what tools are there out their that allow you to look
into the archives on the server. Certainly there must be some in order to do
what I call the "hang em" report. That's the report you run when you want to
fire someone and need an excuse other than the real one. Years ago I wrote a
program to dump the phone system records for a company for just that
purpose:-))))

So how does one do a forensic dump of the Exchange
DB's????????????????????????

Alternatively what are all the things I need to check in SBS 2003 to solve
the relay access denied problem????
(The server looks to the rest of the world like too.ath.cx with a dynamic IP
address. Inside its 3bears.local. Somehow or another 3bears.biz - the url of
my externally hosted web site - also shows up in various places.)

Incidentally, if I use Outlook / Exchange to send a message to ac2@???.net,
it gets through just fine. UGH!!!!!

Regards,
Al

"Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]" <mwport@no_spam_hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uwqED0sxEHA.392@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>I suspect they were bounced back to the "postmaster" at your domain
> (generally this is the Administrator account). You can fire up Internet
> Explorer to get to the Companyweb homepage and then, on the right side of
> the page, click Remote Email Access. This gets you to OWA (Outlook Web
> Access). From there, log on as Administrator.
>
> Is this what you wanted?
>
> --
> Merv Porter [SBS MVP]
> ===================================
>
> "Al Christoph" <ac2@too.net> wrote in message
> news:eAv6EyrxEHA.1188@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> What tool do I, as owner / administrator / deus ex machina use to read
>> individual messages in my SBS 2003 Exchange server databases? In
> particular
>> I need to track down alerts that were sent presumably through exchanged
> but
>> were bounced by the receiving ISP.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Al
>>
>>
>
>

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