Working with Salesforce Email Logs: A Comprehensive Analysis

Introduction

Salesforce is a popular software for customer relationship management (CRM). It helps companies to connect well with partners and potential customers. Companies use Salesforce to perform activities like marketing to customers, tracking customer activities, and many others. 

When using Salesforce, you will send and receive emails regularly. Due to this, there is a need for a mechanism that can help you monitor your emails.

In this article, I will show you how to work with Salesforce Email logs. Here is a broad outline of what you will cover in this blog.

• Prerequisites
• Part 1: What is Salesforce?
• Part 2: What you should know about Salesforce Email Logs
• Part 3: How to Request for an Email Log?
• Part 4: Email Log File Format
• Part 5: Limitations
• Part 6: Use Hevo Data
• Conclusion

Prerequisites

This is what you need for this article:

• A Salesforce account. 

Part 1: What is Salesforce?

Salesforce is a customer relationship management (CRM) product that helps bring companies and customers together. It’s an integrated CRM platform that gives all your company departments a single, shared view of each customer. Before Salesforce, companies hosted their CRM solutions on their own server. Due to this, companies took a lot of time and cost to have their own CRM solutions. Even after setting up a CRM solution, it was not easy to use it. This changed after the introduction of Salesforce. 

Salesforce delivers affordable CRM software completely online as a service. The idea behind Salesforce was to do away with the lengthy installation process for CRM software and move everything to the cloud. 

You need to have a Salesforce account to be able to use Salesforce services. 

Part 2: What you should know about Salesforce Email Logs

Here are some of the facts about Salesforce Email Logs:

• Requests for Email logs will be queued in the order that they are received. They will be made available within 30 minutes from the time you request them. 
• The email log errors list gives the list of email log requests that failed. 
• The email logs are in the form of CSV (Comma Separated Values) files within a compressed file. 
• Salesforce allows you to have a maximum of 3 email log requests at any particular time. 
• Email logs are only available for messages that have been sent within the past 30 days before your request. 
• Every email log can only span a maximum of 7 days. However, it’s still possible to get email logs for more than 7 days by submitting multiple requests. 

Part 3: How to Request for an Email Log?

The following steps can help you request for an Email Log from Salesforce:

Step 1: From Setup, type Email Log Files in the Quick Find box and select “Email Log Files”. 

Step 2: Click “Request an Email Log”. 

Step 3: You have the option of filtering the email log to only include rows in which a particular domain name or email address appears in a field, like Recipient or Email ID header. 

If you need to enter more than one filter terms, separate them using commas (,). 

If this field is left blank, the log will not be specified and all the specified email addresses will be returned within the specified time range. 

Step 4: Type the email addresses to receive a notification once the email log request is ready. Separate them using commas. 

You will have made an Email Log Request. You can download it from your email.  If you need to clear the request and return to the email log overview page, just click “Cancel”. 

Part 4: Email Log File Format 

After getting your email log file, you need to make sense out of it. 

This means that you need to understand the format and field values of email log files. 

Here are the columns that you need to pay attention to:

Part 5: Limitations

Here are some of the drawbacks that you will face when using Salesforce Email Logs:

1. You may have to wait for up to 30 minutes to get your requested email log file. 
2. If you have already made 3 log requests, you can’t make another request until one of them gets completed. 
3. Email logs can only show messages that have been sent within the past 30 days before your request. 
4. The email log files may be complex for some users to interpret and understand.

Part 6: Use Hevo Data

Hevo Data provides its users with a simpler platform for integrating data for analysis. 

It is a no-code data pipeline that can help you combine data from 150+ data sources (Including 30+ Free Sources like Salesforce) and visualize it in your BI tool. 

It provides you with a consistent and reliable solution to managing data in real-time, ensuring that you always have analysis-ready data in your desired destination. 

Your job will be to focus on key business needs and perform insightful analysis using BI tools. 

Analyzing the mail event in email logs is a crucial step in Salesforce, as it provides valuable insights into the sales process and helps maintain accurate records in the Salesforce email log files.

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Conclusion

This is what you’ve done in this article:

• You’ve learned more about Salesforce Email Logs. 
• You’ve learned how to request for Salesforce Email Logs.