Count incoming/outgoing messages

Question

Exchange 2k7 on Windows 2k3.
Is there a way to count the number of messages going through my exchange server without the use of a 3rd party app? I was thinking is has to be possible with a VB or powershell script but ensure where to start.

Answer 1

Any chance you can post the contents of your script?
I can give you an example for what you're wanting to do.  Mine is considerably more complicated, and is accumulating stats per user, broken out by total and unique messages and bytes sent (one 1MB email to 5 recipients is 5 total messages and 5MB total
bytes, but 1 unique message and 1MB unique bytes), and that broken down by internal and external messages, and received messages are broken down by external, internal, and internal automated (SCOM alerts, etc), so there is a lot of logic involving checking
the source IP that won't translate very well to someone else's systems.
Briefly:
$hts = "hub_server1","hub_server2","hub_server3"
$start = (get-date).adddays(-1).toshortdatestring()
$end = (get-date).toshortdatestring()
$logs = $hts |% {get-messagetrackinglog -start $start -end $end -server $_ -resultsize unlimited}
$stats = ""| select sent,received
$logs |% {
    if ($_.eventid -eq "Deliver"){[int]$stats.sent += 1}
    if ($_.eventid -eq "Send"){[int]$stats.received += 1}
$stats | ft -auto
[string](0..33|%{[char][int](46+("686552495351636652556262185355647068516270555358646562655775 0645570").substring(($_*2),2))})-replace " "