Article ID: 193639
Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q193639
SYMPTOMS
The Internet Mail Service stops with an event log error 4116, which states The following:
Event ID: 4116
Source: MSExchangeIMC
Description: An error was returned from the messaging software the
Internet Mail Service uses to process messages on the Microsoft Exchange
Server. It is possible that the piece of mail being processed at the
time will be returned to the sender as a failed delivery instead of
being delivered. The message will be moved to the "BAD" folder, if
possible, and the error is not a temporary error. Otherwise it will be
retried when the service is restarted. Use the appropriate utilities
found in the SUPPORT directory of your Exchange CD to view and
manipulate messages that have been moved to the "BAD" folder.
CAUSE
The Internet Mail Service is trying to process outbound messages and receiving an error. The first line in the data portion of the error includes the following:
74 00 05 00 0e 00 07 80
The last four numbers indicate the MAPI error that was received and caused the Event 4116. The error is 8007000e, which means out of memory. The Internet Mail Service is programmed to stop if it receives such a memory error.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Exchange Server version 5.5. For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
191014 : XGEN: How to Obtain the Latest Exchange Server 5.5 Service Pack
The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:
Component: Internet Mail Service
File Name Version
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Msexcimc.exe 5.5.2417.0
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Exchange Server version 5.5. This problem was first corrected in Exchange Server 5.5 Service Pack 2.
MORE INFORMATION
A memory error in this instance incorrectly reports the error condition. A message in the MTS-OUT folder had a property header that contained more than 21 KB of data. This header, plus the sizes of all the other headers, totaled more than 32 KB. The Exchange memory manager enforces a limit of 32 KB per remote procedure call (RPC). The RPC failed because the message properties totaled more than 32 KB. So the Internet Mail Service was not actually out of memory. To resolve this, the error returned in the condition was changed to a non-critical one, so that the Internet Mail Service would not shut down. In addition, if the Internet Mail Service cannot successfully retrieve all message properties at once, it divides them up and retrieves some in one attempt and the rest in a second attempt.
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