SMTP Server Object
Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2
The SMTP Server performance object consists of counters that describe the activity of the Exchange NTFS store driver, which is responsible for storing queued messages that are being processed by the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service.
| Counter Name | Description | Counter Type |
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% Recipients Local |
Shows the percentage of recipients that were delivered locally. |
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% Recipients Remote |
Shows the percentage of recipients that were delivered remotely. |
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Avg Recipients/msg Received |
Shows the average number of recipients per inbound message received. |
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Avg Recipients/msg Sent |
Shows the average number of recipients per outbound message sent. |
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Avg Retries/msg Delivered |
Shows the average number of retries per local delivery. |
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Avg Retries/msg Sent |
Shows the average number of retries per outbound message sent. |
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Badmailed Messages (Bad Pickup File) |
Shows the number of malformed pickup messages sent to the badmail directory, which is a directory used to save messages that cannot be handled. These are usually non-delivery reports (NDRs) generated in response to NDRs. |
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Badmailed Messages (General Failure) |
Shows the number of messages sent to badmail for reasons not associated with a specific counter. |
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Badmailed Messages (Hop Count Exceeded) |
Shows the number of messages sent to badmail because they exceeded the maximum hop count. |
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Badmailed Messages (NDR of DSN) |
Shows the number of Delivery Status Notifications (DSN) sent to badmail because a message could not be delivered. If a message is undeliverable, it is returned to the sender with an NDR. |
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Badmailed Messages (No Recipients) |
Shows the number of messages sent to badmail because they had no recipients. |
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Badmailed Messages (Triggered via Event) |
Shows the number of messages sent to badmail at the request of a server event sink. The server events mechanism is used by SMTP to notify event sinks when specific events occur. |
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Bytes Received Total |
Shows the total number of bytes received by the server. |
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Bytes Received/sec |
Shows the rate, in incidents per second, at which bytes were received by the server. |
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Bytes Sent Total |
Shows the total number of bytes sent by the server. |
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Bytes Sent/sec |
Shows the rate, in incidents per second, at which bytes were sent by the server. |
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Bytes Total |
Shows the total number of bytes sent and received by the server. |
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Bytes Total/sec |
Shows the rate, in incidents per second, at which bytes were sent and received by the server. |
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Cat: Address Lookup Completions |
Shows the number of address lookup completions processed by the server. |
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Cat: Address Lookup Completions/sec |
Shows the rate, in incidents per second, at which address lookup completions were processed by the server. |
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Cat: Address Lookups |
Shows the number of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Directory lookups for individual addresses by the server. |
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Cat: Address Lookups Not Found |
Shows the number of address lookups that did not find any LDAP Directory object. |
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Cat: Address Lookups/sec |
Shows the rate, in incidents per second, at which address lookups were dispatched to the LDAP Directory. |
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Cat: Categorizations Completed |
Shows the total number of messages to the categorizer that have completed categorization. Categorizing means looking up sender and recipient properties in the directory service, including doing distribution list expansion. |
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Cat: Categorizations Completed Successfully |
Shows the number of categorizations that were completed without any errors. |
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Cat: Categorizations Completed/sec |
Shows the rate, in incidents per second, at which messages submitted to categorizer were completed. |
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Cat: Categorizations Failed (DS Connection Failure) |
Shows the number of categorizations that failed due to an LDAP Directory connection failure. |
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Cat: Categorizations Failed (DS Logon Failure) |
Shows the number of categorizations that failed due to an LDAP Directory logon failure. |
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Cat: Categorizations Failed (Non-Retryable Error) |
Shows the number of categorizations that failed with a hard error (one which doesn't allow attempts to retry the operation). |
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Cat: Categorizations Failed (Out Of Memory) |
Shows the number of categorizations that failed due to lack of available memory. |
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Cat: Categorizations Failed (Retryable Error) |
Shows the number of categorizations that failed with a error that allowed an attempt to retry the operation. |
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Cat: Categorizations Failed (Sink Retryable Error) |
Shows the number of categorizations that failed with a generic error that allowed an attempt to retry the operation. |
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Cat: Categorizations In Progress |
Shows the number of categorizations in progress. |
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Cat: LDAP Bind Failures |
Shows the total number of LDAP bind failures. |
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Cat: LDAP Binds |
Shows the total number of successful LDAP binds, also known as bind authentications, that were performed. |
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Cat: LDAP Connection Failures |
Shows the total number of connection failures encountered for LDAP servers. |
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Cat: LDAP Connections |
Shows the total number of LDAP connections opened since the computer was last started. |
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Cat: LDAP Connections Currently Open |
Shows the number of LDAP connections currently open. |
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Cat: LDAP General Completion Failures |
Shows the number of LDAP completions with a generic failure. |
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Cat: LDAP Paged Search Completion Failures |
Shows the number of LDAP paged searches that completed with a failure. |
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Cat: LDAP Paged Search Failures |
Shows the number of failures to dispatch an asynchronous paged LDAP search. |
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Cat: LDAP Paged Searches |
Shows the number of LDAP paged searches that were successfully dispatched. |
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Cat: LDAP Paged Searches Completed |
Shows the number of paged LDAP completions processed. |
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Cat: LDAP Search Completion Failures |
Shows the number of LDAP searches that completed with a failure. |
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Cat: LDAP Search Failures |
Shows the number of failures to dispatch an asynchronous LDAP search. |
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Cat: LDAP Searches |
Shows the number of LDAP searches that were successfully dispatched. |
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Cat: LDAP Searches Abandoned |
Shows the umber of LDAP searches that were abandoned. |
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Cat: LDAP Searches Completed |
Shows the number of LDAP search completions that were processed. |
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Cat: LDAP Searches Completed/sec |
Shows the rate, in incidents per second, at which LDAP search completions were processed. |
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Cat: LDAP Searches Pending Completion |
Shows the number of LDAP searches that were pending asynchronous completion. |
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Cat: LDAP Searches/sec |
Shows the rate, in incidents per second, at which number LDAP searches were successfully dispatched. |
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Cat: Mailmsg Duplicate Collisions |
Shows the number of times that a duplicate recipient address was detected by either mailmsg or the categorizer. |
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Cat: Messages Aborted |
Shows the number of messages that were marked to be aborted by the categorizer. |
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Cat: Messages Bifurcated |
Shows the number of new messages that were created by the categorizer (bifurcation). |
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Cat: Messages Categorized |
Shows the number of messages that the categorizer has submitted to queuing. |
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Cat: Messages Submitted |
Shows the total number of messages that were submitted to the categorizer. |
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Cat: Messages Submitted/sec |
Shows the rate, in incidents per second, at which messages were submitted to the categorizer. |
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Cat: Recipients After Categorization |
Shows the number of mail message recipients that were submitted from the categorizer to queuing. |
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Cat: Recipients Before Categorization |
Shows the number of mail message recipients that were submitted to the categorizer. |
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Cat: Recipients In Categorization |
Shows the number of recipients that the categorizer was currently processing. |
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Cat: Recipients NDRd (Ambiguous Address) |
Shows the number of recipients with addresses that match multiple LDAP Directory objects. |
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Cat: Recipients NDRd (Forwarding Loop) |
Shows the number of recipients that received an NDR from the categorizer due to forwarding loop detection. |
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Cat: Recipients NDRd (Illegal Address) |
Shows the number of recipients that received an NDR from the categorizer due to illegal addresses. |
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Cat: Recipients NDRd (Sink Recip Errors) |
Shows the number of recipients that received an NDR from the categorizer due to generic recipient failure. |
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Cat: Recipients NDRd (Unresolved) |
Shows the number of unresolved recipients (local addresses not found). |
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Cat: Recipients NDRd by Categorizer |
Shows the number of recipients set to receive an NDR from the categorizer. |
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Cat: Senders Unresolved |
Shows the number of senders that were not found in the LDAP Directory. |
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Cat: Senders With Ambiguous Addresses |
Shows the number of senders with addresses that match multiple LDAP Directory objects. |
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Categorizer Queue Length |
Shows the number of messages in the categorizer queue waiting to be categorized. |
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Connection Errors/sec |
Shows the rate, in incidents per second, at which connection errors occurred. |
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Current Messages In Local Delivery |
Shows the number of messages that were currently being processed by a server event sink for local delivery. |
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Directory Drops Total |
Shows the total number of messages placed in a drop directory. |
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Directory Drops/sec |
Shows the rate, in incidents per second, at which messages were placed in a drop directory. |
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DNS Queries Total |
Shows the total number of DNS lookups. |
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DNS Queries/sec |
Shows the rate, in incidents per second, of DNS lookups. |
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ETRN Messages Total |
Shows the total number of extended turn (ETRN) messages received by the server. |
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ETRN Messages/sec |
Shows the rate, in incidents per second, of ETRN messages. |
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Inbound Connections Current |
Shows the total number of connections that were currently inbound. |
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Inbound Connections Total |
Shows the total number of inbound connections received. |
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Local Queue Length |
Shows the number of messages in the local queue. |
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Local Retry Queue Length |
Shows the number of messages in the local retry queue. |
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Message Bytes Received Total |
Shows the total number of bytes received in messages. |
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Message Bytes Received/sec |
Shows the rate, in incidents per second, at which bytes were received in messages. |
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Message Bytes Sent Total |
Shows the total number of bytes sent in messages. |
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Message Bytes Sent/sec |
Shows the rate, in incidents per second, at which bytes were sent in messages. |
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Message Bytes Total |
Shows the total number of bytes sent and received in messages. |
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Message Bytes Total/sec |
Shows the rate, in incidents per second, at which bytes were sent and received in messages. |
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Message Delivery Retries |
Shows the total number of local deliveries that were retried. |
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Message Received/sec |
Shows the rate, in incidents per second, at which inbound messages were being received. |
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Message Send Retries |
Shows the total number of outbound message sends that were retried. |
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Messages Currently Undeliverable |
Shows the number of messages that were reported as currently undeliverable by routing. |
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Messages Delivered Total |
Shows the total number of messages that were delivered to local mailboxes. |
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Messages Delivered/sec |
Shows the rate, in incidents per second, at which messages were delivered to local mailboxes. |
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Messages Pending Routing |
Shows the number of messages that were categorized but not routed. |
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Messages Received Total |
Shows the total number of inbound messages that were accepted. |
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Messages Refused for Address Objects |
Shows the total number of messages that were refused due to no address objects. |
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Messages Refused for Mail Objects |
Shows the total number of messages that were refused due to no mail objects. |
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Messages Refused for Size |
Shows the total number of messages that were rejected because they were too big. |
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Messages Sent Total |
Shows the total number of outbound messages that were sent. |
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Messages Sent/sec |
Shows the rate, in incidents per second, at which outbound messages were sent. |
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NDRs Generated |
Shows the number of NDRs that were generated. |
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Number of MailFiles Open |
Shows the number of handles to open mail files. |
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Number of QueueFiles Open |
Shows the number of handles to open queue files. |
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Outbound Connections Current |
Shows the number of connections that were currently outbound. |
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Outbound Connections Refused |
Shows the number of outbound connection attempts that were refused by remote sites. |
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Outbound Connections Total |
Shows the total number of outbound connections that were attempted. |
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Pickup Directory Messages Retrieved Total |
Shows the total number of messages that were retrieved from the mail pick-up directory. |
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Pickup Directory Messages Retrieved/sec |
Shows the rate, in incidents per second, at which messages were retrieved from the mail pick-up directory. |
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Remote Queue Length |
Shows the number of messages that were in the remote queue. |
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Remote Retry Queue Length |
Shows the number of messages that were in the retry queue for remote delivery. |
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Routing Table Lookups Total |
Shows the total number of routing table lookups. |
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Routing Table Lookups/sec |
Shows the rate, in incidents per second, of routing table lookups. |
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Total Connection Errors |
Shows the total number of connection errors. |
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Total DSN Failures |
Shows the total number of failed DSN generation attempts. |
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Total messages submitted |
Shows the total number of messages submitted to queuing for delivery. |