I did this using a powershell script and a scheduled task. About every half hour, the script would fire, and send an smtp email through an external smtp relay, with a timestamp in the subject line. Then it would wait 5 minutes, and check the message tracking log to see if that message had been received, and could calculate how long the round trip time was just from the Subject line. All the information I needed was in the message tracking log, so I didn't have to mess with opening a mailbox and looking for the email there, and I set a transport rule to discard the messages so I didn't have to worry about them accumulating in a mailbox somewhere.
Don't know if that's something that would work in your environment or not. From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:cbusitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 7:47 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Email performance tool? I'm looking for tool (preferably free or cheap) that can do a specific email test and am not having any luck. I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. Here is what I need it to do. Send an email from an external account and then check to see how long it takes to be delivered to an internal exchange account. If the email takes longer than 5 minutes I would like to be alerted. Thanks for any tips. Matt --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist ************************************************************************************************** Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. ************************************************************************************************** --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
