There are five types of activity logging records for mail activity:

Type of record	Description
Deposit	Mail is deposited into MAIL.BOX on a server. This mail can come from an IBM® Lotus® Domino® server or a Domino SMTP server. The receiving server logs this activity as a Deposit. The sending server logs this activity as a Transfer.
Delivery	Mail is delivered from MAIL.BOX to a user.
Delivery failure	The router could not deliver a message.
Transfer	Mail is transferred from one server to another on the way to its final destination. The sending server logs this as a Transfer. The receiving server logs this as a Deposit.
Transfer failure	The router cannot transfer a message to another server. This is logged on the sending server.

For each mail message, at least two types of records are logged -- a Deposit record and at least one of the other types of records, depending on the disposition of the attempted delivery.

Domino logs updates to messages in MAIL.BOX as new deposits. For example, if you change the address on a message in MAIL.BOX so that it routes correctly, that message is logged as a new deposit.

If a message is split because the recipient list is too large, a separate record is generated for each copy of the message. Each of these records contains the same MessageID and Originator.

Related topics

The information in the log file
Configuring activity logging
Example of creating activity logging records
Viewing activity logging data

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