Microsoft KB Archive/149017

= XCON: MTACheck Event IDs and Command Line Syntax =

Article ID: 149017

Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q149017



SUMMARY
The Message Transfer Agent (MTA) has a built-in startup recovery method (MTACheck). This method is automatically invoked if the MSExchangeMTA does not stop cleanly.

This check scans and makes repairs to the MTA database files (DB*.DAT files in the MTADATA subdirectory).



MORE INFORMATION
MTACheck generates the following events:

MSExchangeMTA / Field Engineering #2119 - MTACheck start

MSExchangeMTA / Field Engineering #2206 - Once for each internal MTA queue checked. The MTA queues are:

XAPIWRKQ

OOFINFOQ

REFDATQ

MTAWORKQ

MSExchangeMTA / Field Engineering #2119 - MTACheck completed

The MTACheck saves the process results in the MTACHECK.LOG file located in the \MTADATA\MTACHEK.OUT directory. It may take a few minutes to a few hours to run the MTACheck, depending on the number of files in the MTADATA directory.

You can run the MTACheck manually. To run MTACheck manually, type the following at the command prompt:

mtacheck /v /f .LOG

NOTE: You cannot run MTACheck remotely.

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