Comments on: How to Tell Which Transport Rule Was Applied to an Email Message

By: hazem

hazem — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 14:22:00 +0000

you are a legend Paul , I still see your posts and use them occasionally ,it is very sad that we no longer see your contributions ,god bless you ,you are a true legend for Exchange community

By: Phall

Phall — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:47:27 +0000

Where would we find the specific action taken by a particular rule? For example, there is a transport rule which is configured to “prepend a disclaimer” into a message, but if the disclaimer cannot prepend for any reason (such as email formatting which prevents the prepend action), and the rule instead has to either ignore or wrap, where would we find the rule action taken? We’d like to be able to report on whether a rule took a wrap action instead of prepending the disclaimer but I’m not finding the specific action in the logs.

By: Vance

Vance — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 18:32:00 +0000

In reply to Daniel. Message Trace will typically tell you which Rule(s) applied. If you have multiple conditions in the Rule it won't tell you which of those were triggered though.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 15:39:53 +0000

Can something similar to this be performed in Exchange Online?

By: Mailadmin

Mailadmin — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 10:15:11 +0000

no information in eventdata. it is blank, but SourceContext : Transport Rule Agent is showing there, what can i do ?

By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 14:53:12 +0000

Is there any way to tell via the message tracking logs if Inbox Rules are causing emails that have been delivered not to be visible?

By: Zahari Zahariev

Zahari Zahariev — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 16:18:01 +0000

Hi gents,

Is there any way we can make this investigation in Exchange 2016

By: Marios

Marios — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 12:35:01 +0000

Really helpful post, thanks for sharing 🙂

By: badbanana

badbanana — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 09:18:07 +0000

nice.

but this is assuming the rejection came from a transport rule. in our case, we used AD and for that you can’t find out which AD object blocked or rejected the email unless you are familiar or be the person who created that blocking using AD.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 18:39:44 +0000

Hi Paul,
What if a user placed a rule that all sent emails would go to another email address and not go to the sent emails folder? How could you then check the rule for an email that is in fact not there?