XCON: MTA Closes Improperly After Repeated Stops and Restarts

• Microsoft Exchange Server, version 5.5

SYMPTOMS

If you repeatedly stop and restart the message transfer agent (MTA) when there are a large number of messages in the inbound or outbound message queue, the MTA may not close properly when you attempt to close it.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.5. This problem has been corrected in the latest U.S. service pack for Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.5. For information on obtaining the service pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

S E R V P A C K

Keywords :
Version : WINDOWS:5.5
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug