XCON: MTACheck Event IDs and Command Line Syntax (149017)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5
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.
Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:4/28/2005
Keywords:kbnetwork kbusage KB149017
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