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Version: 1.3

Message history

Message History lists all actions performed on processed email messages.

The Message History page, with the search field, the Search and Refresh buttons and a list of processed messages with their type, date, server, sender, subject, MSH-ID and queue ID

If Diagnostic logging is enabled, each processed message appears on the list with these columns:

ColumnShows
TypeThe most severe entry in the processing trace: info when processing went without problems, warn when the trace has a warning, erro when it has an error
DateWhen the milter processed the message, in the time zone of the web admin server
ServerThe server whose milter processed the message
FromThe sender address of the message
SubjectThe subject of the message
MSH-IDThe identifier MSH Zimbra Rules gives each message it processes. An attachment without a file name that a rule saves or strips is stored under this ID
QueueIDThe Postfix queue ID of the message, to find it in the Zimbra mail log (/var/log/zimbra.log)
Time (ms)How long the milter took to process the message, in milliseconds
StatusThe answer the milter gave Postfix for the message: accept (delivered, with any changes the rules made), or discard, reject, tempfail or custom when a Block message action blocked it

Use the search field to filter the list by MSH-ID, queue ID, sender or subject.

Click a message to open its details. The details show the complete processing trace for the message - which rules were evaluated, which conditions matched, and what actions were applied.

With several MTA servers, the list shows the messages of all servers together. A server that does not answer within 10 seconds is named on the page, and its messages are missing from the list until it answers again.

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