# Reviewing the audit log | SmartMail Documentation

> Step by step for administrators: who did what and when is shown in the audit log; policy changes and bulk operations are also filtered separately.

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# Reviewing the audit log

An administrator sees the history of important actions in the organization on the **Audit log** screen of SmartMail Management: creating and deleting mailboxes, granting access, blocklist and allowlist rules, quarantine, bulk move, approved sending and settings changes. Each row shows who performed the action and when.

- Administrator with permission to read the audit log

## How to review the audit log?

The administrator sees the history of important operations in the organization in the Audit log screen of SmartMail Management: creating and deleting mailboxes, granting access, black and white list rules, quarantine, bulk move, approved sending and settings changes. Who can do this: Administrator with permission to read the audit log. Each row states who performed the operation and when.

## Steps

Open **Audit log** from the left menu. The newest actions are at the top.

To see only organization-wide rule and permission changes, click **Policy changes**; for actions affecting many emails at once, click **Bulk actions** 1. To return to all, select **All events**.

In the row, read the name of the action 2, the person who performed it 3 and its date 4. For bulk actions, it also states how many emails were affected.

For older records, click **Older records** at the end of the list.

- 1Filter records

- 2What was done

- 3Who did it

- 4When

Audit log, with demo data.

**Tip**For automatic actions such as auto-quarantine, the actor is shown as **System**. The coloured bar indicates the severity of the action: organization-wide rule and permission changes and deletion actions are highlighted separately.

## Related pages

- [Blacklisting or whitelisting senders](/en/smartmail/belgeler/yonetici/gonderen-kurallari)

- [Assigning mailboxes to individuals and departments](/en/smartmail/belgeler/yonetici/posta-kutusu-atama)

- [Management and permissions](/en/smartmail/yonetim)