KB Q300479 Detailed logging to OPMLog.log

[Tony Gravagno]

Outlook 2003, WinXP
Ref http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q300479
I see Jeff Stephenson posting this URL a lot - thanks Jeff.

I'm getting errors from another e-mail client when connecting to the
server, but not from Outlook. To see the difference in the SMTP
exchanges I'd like to compare logs.

The default logging per Q300479 doesn't include mail address details,
but uses asterisks to block them out and there are other little
details that seem to be missing. Can we get a more detailed log?
Obviously some editing of the actual protocol exchange is taking
place, it would be good to see a completely unedited log of the
dialog.

Also, there's a registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Mail and News\Mail.
This contains the string "Log File (Outlook)" which defaults to
Windows\System32 - not the directories mentioned in the KB article.
Changing this value does not change the location of the Outlook logs.
Are the registry values under that key even used anymore? Is that an
artifact from Outlook Express?

Thanks.
Tony

 

[Jeff Stephenson [MSFT]]

Yes that regkey is an artifact from Outlook Express. To get address
information into the logfile, you can create the DWORD "NoAddrsInLogs"
in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook and set it to 0. We
purposely try and leave email addresses and other sensitive information out
of the logs so they can be safely posted to newsgroups without every spammer
in the world getting a new set of addresses...

Besides the actual addresses, what other details do you think are missing?