XCON: MTA Events 2219, 2206, and 2207 (MTACHECK)

• Microsoft Exchange Server, version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

The application log contains several warning events from MSExchangeMTA Field Engineering beginning with a 2219 event, followed by several 2206 events, and ending with a 2207 event.

CAUSE

These events simply indicate that the message transfer agent (MTA) is running an automatic MTACHECK because it determined that the MTA was not shut down cleanly the last time it stopped. The MTA automatically logs the results to the Exchsrvr\Mtadata\Mtacheck.Out\Mtacheck.log file.

MORE INFORMATION

The automatic MTACHECK delays MTA startup. The events are as follows:

   Event ID: 2219
   Source:   MSExchangeMTA
   Category: Field Engineering
   Description:
   The MTA is running recovery on the internal message database because the
   MTA was not shut down cleanly. This operation may take some time.
   Status updates will be written to the Windows NT Event Log. [%1 %2 %3
   %4] (14)

   Event ID: 2206
   Source:   MSExchangeMTA
   Category: Field Engineering
   Description:
   The MTA database recovery operation is now checking queue: %1, the
   filename of this queue is: %2. [%3 %4 %5 %6] (14)

   Event ID: 2207
   Source:   MSExchangeMTA
   Category: Field Engineering
   Description:
   The MTA database recovery operation has completed successfully. Recovery
   details can be found in the file: %1. [%2 %3 %4 %5] (14)