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Exchange SMTP Protocol Logging Reviewer
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Description
Is your request related to a problem? Please describe.
It is hard to follow the flow of the protocol logging and call out possible issues.
Describe The Request
Create a new script that is able to assist with SMTP protocol logging review.
Key points to included:
- Generic review of the log to find any issues like sessions being started but never used
- Following a single message from start to finish hopping between servers
- Call out possible logs missing for full review
- Call out large time gaps between entries - Example: BDAT sending 700 bytes the next entry is a session closed 5 minutes later.
- Able to run on Exchange - Made easier to hop between servers following a message due to EMS
- Able to run on Engineer computer who collected the logs for off-site review
- If entire message is found and delivered, do a report that includes time stamps and flow of the message
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by surveying the repository's existing PowerShell support scripts and the Exchange SMTP protocol logging and EMS entry points. Define how logs are correlated across servers and what gaps or timing anomalies must be reported. Done means a script can review sessions, follow a message, identify missing logs and large gaps, and produce a delivery timeline on Exchange or an engineer's computer.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- powershell
- Domain
- networking, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100