Search-Mailbox + date output

Question

Hey guys,
I'm up to create a very small reporting for our helpdesk mailbox. At the moment just the number of received emails per day is needed.
search-mailbox helpdesk -targetmailbox AdminSearchMailbox -targetfolder "search results" -searchquery "received:today" -LogOnly -LogLevel full | export-csv c:\test.csv
-append
I would create a scheduled task which runs the command at the end of the day.
This works quite fine so far, but I want to add the current date in each row.
I just tried to pipe get-date even with a variable.
Have you got any idea how to solve this?
Kind regrads,
Christian

Answer 1

Search-Mailbox is only going to give you the count of the number of messages that are currently in the mailbox (whether they were delivered, copied, or dragged from another mailbox) - it will not tell you how many have been delivered to it.  It is also
overkill if all you need is the information about the messages, but not really the messages themselves.  Additionally, the search as you have it laid out will not only show you what was sent into the mailbox, but also what was sent from it (since messages
sent from the mailbox will show up in the "received:today" part of your query).
In your situation, I recommend using Get-MessageTrackingLog searches, since they will give you exactly what was delivered into a mailbox, regardless of whether it still exists in the mailbox or not. And it will give you the information about the messages
without burdening you with the messages themselves.  For your case, I'd run the following daily:
$Today = Get-Date (Get-Date -Format MM/dd/yyyy)
$Yesterday = $Today.AddDays(-1)
Get-TransportServer | Sort Name | % {
    Get-MessageTrackingLog -Recipients:<smtp address of helpdesk mailbox> -Start $Yesterday -End $Today -Server $_.Name
} | Select TimeStamp, Sender, @{E={ "$($_.Recipients)" };L='Recipients'}, MessageSubject, EventID, TotalBytes, RecipientCount, `
    @{E={ "$($_.RecipientStatus)" };L='RecipientStatus'}, ServerHostName, MessageLatency*, ConnectorID, MessageID
I've split the Select statement at the end for readability.  This short script should give you the full information about the messages received into this mailbox for all of yesterday (midnight to midnight), without actually requiring storage to
hold all the messages.  Oh, and the TimeStamp field of each row will show you what date everything happened, which gives you the information about date that you are currently missing.