HARECEIVE and HADISCARD

Sherin John 21 Reputation points
2022-11-08T07:29:00.303+00:00

I am trying to understand what HARECEIVE and HADISCARD means. I have read multiple articles and I dont get it.
I have some emails sent to one particular mailbox in Exchange 2016 , and in message tracking log, the only 2 event IDs for the emails are HARECEIVE and HADISCARD . Source is SMTP.
So what exactly happened to that email.

Thanks

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  1. LilyLi2-MSFT 1,956 Reputation points
    2022-11-09T05:11:41.147+00:00

    Hi @Sherin John ,

    1.Were these emails delivered successfully? Or discarded?
    2.Did you send emails to the particular mailbox in bulk?

    These are the event types in the message tracking log:

    • HARECEIVE means a shadow message was received by the server in the local database availability group (DAG) or Active Directory site.
    • HADISCARD means a shadow message was discarded after the primary copy was delivered to the next hop.

    For more information, please see Shadow redundancy in Exchange Server.

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