XCON: MTACheck Event IDs and Command Line Syntax

 Last reviewed: September 23, 1997
Article ID: Q149017
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Exchange Server, version 4.0

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).

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.

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Version : 4.0
Platform : WINDOWS

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Last reviewed: September 23, 1997
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