Email

The fields and tags in the Email data model describe email traffic (whether server:server or client:server).

Tags used with Email event objects

Object name	Tag name
All_Email	email
|____ Delivery	delivery
|____ Content	content
|____ Filtering	filter

Fields for the Email event objects

Object name	Field name	Data type	Description	Possible values
Email	action	string	Action taken by the reporting device.	delivered, blocked, quarantined, unknown
Email	delay	number	Total sending delay in seconds.
Email	dest	string	The endpoint system to which the message was delivered. May be aliased from more specific fields, such as dest_host, dest_ip, or dest_name.
Email	dest_bunit	string	The business unit of the endpoint system to which the message was delivered.
Email	dest_category	string	The category of the endpoint system to which the message was delivered.
Email	dest_priority	string	The priority of the endpoint system to which the message was delivered.
Email	file_hash	string	The hash(es) for the file(s) attached to the message, if any exist.
Email	file_name	string	The name(s) of the file(s) attached to the message, if any exist.
Email	internal_message_id	string	Host-specific unique message identifier (such as aid in sendmail, IMI in Domino, Internal-Message-ID in Exchange, and MID in Ironport).
Email	message_id	string	The globally-unique message identifier.
Email	message_info	string	Additional information about the message.
Email	orig_dest	string	The original destination host of the message. The message destination host can change when a message is relayed or bounced.
Email	orig_recipient	string	The original recipient of the message. The message recipient can change when the original email address is an alias and has to be resolved to the actual recipient.
Email	orig_src	string	The original source of the message.
Email	process	string	The name of the email executable that carries out the message transaction, such as sendmail, postfix, or the name of an email client.
Email	process_id	number	The numeric identifier of the process that Splunk invokes in order to send the message.
Email	protocol	string	The email protocol involved, such as SMTP or RPC.
Email	recipient	string	A field listing individual recipient email addresses, such as recipient="foo@splunk.com", recipient="bar@splunk.com".
Email	recipient_count	number	The total number of intended message recipients.
Email	recipient_status	string	The recipient delivery status, if available.
Email	retries	number	The number of times that the message was automatically resent because it was bounced back, or a similar transmission error condition.
Email	return_addr	string	The return address for the message.
Email	size	number	The size of the message, in bytes.
Email	src	string	The system that sent the message. May be aliased from more specific fields, such as src_host, src_ip, or src_name.
Email	src_bunit	string	The business unit of the system that sent the message.
Email	src_category	string	The category of the system that sent the message.
Email	src_priority	string	The priority of the system that sent the message.
Email	src_user	string	The email address of the message sender.
Email	src_user_bunit	string	The business unit of the message sender.
Email	src_user_category	string	The category of the message sender.
Email	src_user_priority	string	The priority of the message sender.
Email	status_code	string	The status code associated with the message.
Email	subject	string	The subject of the message.
Email	tag	string	The tag(s) associated with the message, if any exist.
Email	url	string	The URL associated with the message, if any.
Email	user	string	The user context for the process. This is not the email address for the sender. For that, look at the src_user field.
Email	user_bunit	string	The business unit of the user context for the process.
Email	user_category	string	The category of the user context for the process.
Email	user_priority	string	The priority of the user context for the process.
Email	vendor_product	string	The full name of the email server used for the email transaction.
Email	xdelay	string	Extended delay information for the message transaction. May contain details of all the delays from all the servers in the message transmission chain.
Email	xref	string	An external reference. Can contain message IDs or recipient addresses from related messages.