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Q197792: XFOR: General Troubleshooting Stuck Msg in Internet Mail Service

Article: Q197792
Product(s): Microsoft Exchange
Version(s): 4.0,5.0,5.5
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): exc55
Last Modified: 06-AUG-2002

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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 Internet Mail Service may stop working, and log error 4116 or others in the
event log, such as event 4116, or it may Dr. Watson on store.exe. This may be
because a message is stuck in the Internet Mail Service queues.

MORE INFORMATION
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To correct for messages stuck in the Internet Mail Service queues follow these
steps:

1. In the Control Panel, double-click Services, and then stop the Internet Mail
  Service.

2. Locate the exchsrvr\Imcdata directory. You can verify this, by checking the
  registry under the following key:

  HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIMC\Parameters\RootDir

3. Create a temporary directory named "TempIMS" (without the quotation marks)
  under \Imcdata.

4. In the Exchsrvr\Imcdata directory, delete the Queue.dat file.

5. Copy the two directories, Imcdata\IN and Imcdata\OUT, to the TempIMS
  directory.

6. Delete all the files in the Imcdata\IN and Imcdata\OUT directories.


7. Clear out the MAPI queues in MTS-IN and MTS-OUT in the information store.
  Otherwise, if there are mailboxes on the Exchange Server computer, you need
  to use one of the following utilities: Gwclean, Profinst, or Mdbvu32.

  If you use Mdbvu32, run the Profinst program to install the MAPI profile to be
  used by Mdbvu32.

For additional information about how to view and delete messages in the MTS-IN
and MTS-OUT queues, click the article number below to view the article in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  Q165505 How to View/Delete Messages in the MTS-IN and MTS-OUT queue


8. After you clear the queues, restart the information store and the Internet
  Mail Service. If this fails, check the message transfer agent (MTA) queues.
  Run the "mtacheck /V /F <filename>.txt" (without the quotation marks)
  command. You may want to use the /rd or /rl switches.

9. Replay the messages; stop the Internet Mail Service, delete the Queue.dat
  file, copy the files from TempIMC\IN and TempIMC\OUT to the corresponding
  directories under Imcdata\IN and Imcdata\OUT, and then restart the Internet
  Mail Service.

Additional query words:

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Keywords          : exc55 
Technology        : kbExchangeSearch kbExchange500 kbExchange550 kbExchange400 kbZNotKeyword2
Version           : :4.0,5.0,5.5
Issue type        : kbhowto

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