Applies to: Exchange Server 2007
Topic Last Modified: 2007-06-11

Use the General tab on the Journaling Rule Properties to view or modify the selected journal rule. A journal rule defines how widely the Journaling agent looks for messages to journal.

Rule Name

This field shows the name of the journal rule. You can change the journal rule name. The length of the name can't exceed 64 characters.

Send Journal reports to e-mail address

This field shows the recipient that will receive the journal reports.

To change the e-mail address to receive the journal reports, click Browse. In the Select Recipient window, select the mailbox, contact, or distribution group to send journal reports to, and then click OK.

Scope

This field specifies whether the journal rule is applied to internal recipients and senders only, to external recipients and senders only, or to both. Select one of the following:

  • Global   Global rules process all e-mail messages that pass through a computer that has the Hub Transport server role installed. This includes messages that may have already been processed by External rules and Internal rules.

  • Internal   Internal rules process e-mail messages that are sent and received by recipients in the organization.

  • External   External rules process e-mail messages that are sent to recipients or from senders outside the organization.

Journal messages for recipient

This field specifies the mailbox, contact, or distribution group that contains the recipients or senders that you want to journal.

To target a specific recipient or distribution group, select the Journal e-mail for recipient check box and then click Browse in the same field. In the Select Recipient window, select the mailbox, contact, or distribution group that you want to journal, and then click OK.

To journal all e-mail messages for the whole organization, leave this field blank.

Enable Rule

This field determines if a journal rule is enabled or disabled. If a journal rule is disabled, it won't be applied to any e-mail messages. If you want the rule to be created in a disabled state, clear the Enable Rule check box. Otherwise, leave Enable Rule selected.

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