Article ID: 243759
Article Last Modified on 10/26/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q243759
SYMPTOMS
The Microsoft Exchange Server message transfer agent (MTA) may repeatedly stop with the following event in the Windows NT Event Viewer:
Event 9405:
An unexpected error has occurred which may cause the MTA to terminate. Error: Access violation (0xc0000005) at Address 0x5e215a reading from 0x0. [BASE XFER-OUT 20] (16)
CAUSE
The MTA is not properly deleting an entity control block after routing a message.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Exchange Server 5.5. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
191014 XGEN: How to Obtain the latest Exchange Server 5.5 Service Pack
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.5. This problem was first corrected in Exchange Server 5.5 Service Pack 4.
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