Generally described, the present application corresponds to the management of journaling messages in a messaging environment. A set of electronic messaging clients can be associated with a designated journaling destination that may be different from a default journaling destination associated with each individual messaging client. Additionally, the messaging environment can alternate between multiple designated journaling destinations to increase the mail load that a single journal destination can manage. The messaging environment can evaluate journaling criteria to select alternate designated journaling destinations from a set of available alternate journaling destinations.