XCON: Exchange MTA Logs Event ID 62 and 3144

ID: Q165146

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Exchange Server, versions 4.0, 5.0, 5.5

SYMPTOMS

Microsoft Exchange Server may log the following warnings in the Windows NT event viewer:


   Event ID 3144
   Source: MSExchangeMTA
   Type: Warning
   Category: X.400 Service

   An internal MTA error occurred: message submit failure. Object ID:
   06xxxxx.

   Entity name:

   /o=Microsoft/ou=MAILER/cn=Configuration/cn=Servers/cn=HIGHLANDERS/ 
   cn=Microsoft

   Private MDB. [XAPI DELIVER 47 109] (12)

   Event ID 62
   Source MSExchangeMTA
   Type Warning
   Category x.400 Service

   A delivery failure occurred for the message with message transfer
   service identifier. X.400 reason code unable-to-transfer. Diagnostic
   content-too-long.

   Contact Microsoft Product Support Services. [0 MTA SUBMIT 25 112] (12)

CAUSE

These warnings are caused by a message that exceeds the limit set on the Servers MTA. Increasing the server's message transfer agent (MTA) message size limit will resolve the problem

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbsetup kbtshoot kbusage XCON exc4 exc5 exc55
Version : winnt:4.0,5.0,5.5
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbprb