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Q149017: XCON: MTACheck Event IDs and Command Line Syntax

Article: Q149017
Product(s): Microsoft Exchange
Version(s): winnt:4.0,5.0,5.5
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbnetwork kbusage exc4 exc5 exc55
Last Modified: 28-JUL-2000

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Exchange Server, versions 4.0, 5.0, 5.5 
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SUMMARY
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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
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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.


Additional query words: faq

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Keywords          : kbnetwork kbusage exc4 exc5 exc55 
Technology        : kbExchangeSearch kbExchange500 kbExchange550 kbExchange400 kbZNotKeyword2
Version           : winnt:4.0,5.0,5.5

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