How to Use the Find Messages Option

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You can use the Find Messages option to search for messages by specifying search criteria (such as the sender or recipient) or the message state (such as frozen). You can also specify the number of messages that you want your search to return. Using Find Messages in Exchange Server 2003 is similar to the Enumerate messages option in Exchange 2000.

Procedure

To search for messages by a particular sender (or recipient)

  • In Queue Viewer, click Find Messages, click Sender (or Recipient), and then search by typing the name or using the search criteria.
  • In Queue Viewer, click Find Messages, click the Number of messages to be listed in the search list, and select the number of messages (for example, 500) that you want listed in the search.

To search for messages in a particular state

  1. In Queue Viewer, click Find Messages, click the Show messages whose state is list, and select from the following options:

    • All Messages   This option shows all the messages in the list regardless of the state that they are in.

    • Frozen   This option shows the messages that are in a frozen state. Besides freezing all messages in a specific queue, a single message can also be frozen. If a single message or several messages in a queue are frozen, other messages can still flow into or out of this queue. The whole queue is not frozen.

    • Retry   This option shows the messages that are awaiting another delivery attempt. Messages in the retry state have failed one or more delivery attempts.

  2. After you have specified your search criteria, click Find Now to start the search.

    The results of the search appear under Search Results.