Article ID: 149017
Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Standard Edition
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 <Exchange Server>\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 file name>.LOG
NOTE: You cannot run MTACheck remotely.
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