XFOR: Pickup Delivers Files, but They Stay in the Retry Queue (161686)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Commercial Internet System 1.0
This article was previously published under Q161686 SYMPTOMS
Erroneous .rtr file(s) may exist in the Queue directory.
Eventually all files will be delivered, but the retry queue will still
have some entries left, which SMTP Service attempts to pick up. Because
the files have already been deleted, there are no physical files in the
Pickup directory corresponding to those entries in the .rtr file. As a
result, the processing of the files keeps failing and keeps retrying.
CAUSE
This problem can only occur in a very small window of time, where once the
message is deleted (because another thread has delivered it), the service
deletes the queue object and does not spin. If the message is opened by
the second thread while the first thread is between the CloseHandle and
the DeleteFile calls, it may be possible to get to copies of the message.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Commercial
Internet System (MCIS) version 1.0.
Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 9/30/2003 |
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Keywords: | KB161686 |
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