Microsoft KB Archive/140945

= XCON: MTA Error ID 251 =

Article ID: 140945

Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q140945



SYMPTOMS
The Microsoft Exchange Message Transfer Agent (MTA) crashes with:

Event ID 251

A fatal internal MTA error occurred. Entity control block reassigned because of a configuration error.



CAUSE
This Event Id is incorrectly categorized as fatal.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Exchange Server version 4.0. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 U.S. Service Pack 2. For information on obtaining the service pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

S E R V P A C K

Keywords: kbusage KB140945

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